There are ancient Egyptian obelisks in the following locations:
- Egypt – 9
- Pharaoh Thutmosis I, Karnak Temple, Luxor
- Pharaoh Ramses II, Luxor Temple
- Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Karnak Temple, Luxor
- Pharaoh Senusret I, Al-Masalla area of Al-Matariyyah district in Heliopolis, Cairo
- Pharaoh Ramses III, Luxor Museum
- Pharaoh Ramses II, Gezira Island, Cairo, 20.4 m[14]
- Pharaoh Ramses II, Cairo International Airport, 16.97 m
- Pharaoh Seti II, Karnak Temple, Luxor, 7 m
- Pharaoh Senusret I, Faiyum (ancient site of Crocodilopolis), 12.9 m[15]
- France – 1
- Pharaoh Ramses II, Luxor Obelisk, in Place de la Concorde, Paris
- Israel – 1
- Italy – 11 (includes the only one located in the Vatican City)
- Rome — 8 ancient Egyptian obelisks (see List of obelisks in Rome)
- Piazza del Duomo, Catania (Sicily)
- Boboli Gardens (Florence)
- Urbino
- Poland – 1
- Turkey – 1
- Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, in Square of Horses, Istanbul
- United Kingdom – 4
- Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, "Cleopatra's Needle", on Victoria Embankment, London
- Pharaoh Amenhotep II, in the Oriental Museum, University of Durham
- Pharaoh Ptolemy IX, Philae obelisk, at Kingston Lacy, near Wimborne Minster, Dorset
- Pharaoh Nectanebo II, British Museum, London (pair of obelisks)
- United States – 1
- Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, "Cleopatra's Needle", in Central Park, New York
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