Beheira Govrenorate
Beheira Govrenorate (Arabic: محافظة البحيرة Muḥāfaẓat al Buḥaira) is a coastal governorate in Egyp. Locatit in the north o the kintra in the Nile Delta, its caipital is Damanhur.
Beheira Govrenorate | |
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.svg) Beheira Governorate on the map o Egyp | |
| Kintra |  Egyp |
| Seat | Damanhur (caipital) |
| Govrenment | |
| • Govrenor | Dr Mohamed Sultan [1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10,130 km2 (3,910 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 5,647,233 |
| • Density | 560/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
Owerview
eeditBeheira govrenorate enjoys an important strategical place, wast o the Rosetta branch o the Nile. It comprises fower important heich-gates, namely the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, the Cairo agricultural road, the internaitional road an the circular road. Beheira govrenorate is an aa home tae a number o the maist important Coptic monasteries in Wadi El Natrun (Scetes).
Beheira consists o 13 centres an 14 ceeties, an contains important industries such as cotton, chemicals, carpets, electricity an fishin.
Ceeties
eedit- Abul Matamir
- Abu Hummus
- El Delengat
- El Mahmoudiyah
- El Rahmaniyah
- Damanhur
- Hosh Issa
- Edko
- Etay El Barud
- Kafr el-Dawwar
- Kom Hamadah
- Rosetta
- Shubrakhit
- Wadi El Natrun
- Nubariyah
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- ↑ "Mansour appoints 20 new governors". Daily News Egypt. Retrieved 15 August 2013.