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Country
  
Egypt

Elevation
  
17 m (56 ft)

Area code(s)
  
(+20) 47

Local time
  
Friday 5:57 PM

Governorate
  
Kafr El Sheikh

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
160,266 (2012)

University
  
Kafrelsheikh University

Kafr El Sheikh

Weather
  
18°C, Wind NE at 16 km/h, 54% Humidity

Kafr El Sheikh (Arabic: كفر الشيخ‎‎ [kɑfɾ eʃˈʃeːx]) is the capital of Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, about 134 km north of Cairo, in the Nile Delta of lower Egypt. As of November 2006, the town had a population of 147,380 inhabitants.

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Map of Kafr El-Shaikh, Qism Kafr El-Shaikh, Kafr El-Shaikh, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt

Kafr El Sheikh was earlier known as Denqiun, and has been settled for thousands of years. In 2006 the University of Kafr El Sheikh was established.

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Geography

Kafr El Sheikh is located in the southern side of the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, it is famous for agriculture, escpecially the production of rice. The city is surrounded to the east by the villages of Qantara and Sawalha which are separated by a small Canal.

Population

The population of the city, according to a census from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, is 147,393. Kafr El Sheikh, is the fourth largest city in the Nile Delta.

Factories

Kafr El Sheikh is the home to various factories, including a rice mill, a poultry forage factory and a sugar beet factory.

Climate

Kafr el-Sheikh is classified by Köppen-Geiger climate classification system as hot desert (BWh).

Notable people

  • Mohamed Atta, terrorist hijacker and operational leader of the Hamburg cell responsible for the September 11 attacks
  • Hossam Ghaly, Egyptian soccer player
  • Mahmoud Hassan "Trezeguet", Egyptian footballer
  • Osama Anwar Okasha, Egyptian screenwriter and journalist
  • Hamdeen Sabahi, the leader of the Dignity Party and one of the leaders of the Egyptian opposition before the 2011 Egyptian revolution
  • Saad Zaghloul, Egyptian politician
  • Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American scientist
  • References

    Kafr El Sheikh Wikipedia


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