Hihya

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| name = Hihya

| native_name = ههيا

| native_name_lang = ar

| settlement_type = City

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| pushpin_map = Egypt

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Egypt

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Egypt

| subdivision_type1 = Governorate

| subdivision_name1 = Sharqia

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| area_footnotes = {{cite web |title=Hihyā (Markaz, Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://citypopulation.de/en/egypt/admin/ash_sharqiyah/1311__hihy%C4%81/ |website=citypopulation.de |access-date=17 March 2023}}

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| elevation_m = 10

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| population_total = 317,772

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Hihya ({{langx|ar|ههيا}}) is a city in the Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. It had a population of 66,702 in the 2017 census.{{cite web|title=The population of the governorates of Egypt according to census results.|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/Egypt-Cities.html |access-date= 2018-08-11}}

The 1885 Egyptian census recorded Hihya as a nahiyah in the district of Sawaleh in Sharqia Governorate; at that time, the population of the city was 4,011 (2,009 men and 2,002 women).{{cite book |last1=Egypt min. of finance, census dept |title=Recensement général de l'Égypte |date=1885 |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpQNAAAAQAAJ |access-date=21 June 2020}}

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