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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
About PINTOMAP Muḩāfaz̧at Aswān (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)Aswan (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt / Muḩāfaz̧at Aswān)Aswan (Egyptian: swn.w; Coptic: Swān; Arabic: أسوان Aswān; Greek: Syene) (, population 200,000) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate. Kom Ombo (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)Kom Ombo (كوم أمبو) (Coptic: Embo; Greek: Omboi, Ptol. iv. Esna (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)The Egyptian city of Esna (known in antiquity as Egyptian: Iunyt or Ta-senet, Greek: transliterated as Latopolis, Strabo xvii. pp. Edfu (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt / Muḩāfaz̧at Aswān)Edfu (also spelt Idfu or in modern French as Edfou and known in antiquity as Behdet) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the River Nile between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately sixty thousand people. For the ancient history of the city, see Apollonopolis Magna. Elephantine (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)Elephantine is an island in the River Nile, located just downstream of the First Cataract at . Lake Nasser (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)|type = Reservoir Daraw Airport (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt / Muḩāfaz̧at Aswān)}} Philae (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)Philae (Greek: ) or Pilak or P'aaleq (Egyptian: remote place or the end or the angle island) or Arabic: Anas el Wagud, is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt. The complex is now located on the nearby island of Agilika. Gebel el-Silsila (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)Gebel el-Silsila (Egyptian: Kheny or Khenu) is 65 km north of Aswan, where the cliffs on both sides of the Nile narrow. The name Kheny (or sometimes Khenu) means "The Place of Rowing". Aswan Dam (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt)Aswan is a city on the first cataract of the Nile in Egypt. Latitude and longitude of cities (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt / Muḩāfaz̧at Aswān){| class="wikitable" Cataracts of the Nile (Africa / Northern Africa / Egypt / Muḩāfaz̧at Aswān)A cataract is a large waterfall. There are six classical cataracts of the Nile between Aswan and Khartoum, counted upstream. | ||