Faiyum Govrenorate

Faiyum Govrenorate (Arabic: ‏محافظة الفيوم‎ Muḥāfaẓat al Fayyūm) is ane o the govrenorates o Egyp in the middle o the kintra. Its caipital is the ceety o Faiyum, locatit aboot 81 mi (130 km) sooth wast o Cairo. It haes a population o 2,512,792 (2006).

Faiyum Govrenorate on the map o Egyp

Etymology

pA-y-m (Faiyum) in hieroglyphs

The name Faiyum comes frae Coptic 'Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ /Ⲡⲉⲓⲟⲙ efiom/peiom (whence the proper name Ⲡⲁⲓⲟⲙ payoum), meanin the Sea or the Lake, which in turn comes frae late Egyptian pA y-m o the same meanin, a reference tae the nearbi Lake Moeris.

Geography

The govrenorate o Faiyum includes:

• The muckle fertile Faiyum Oasis, which comprises fermland, Lake Moeris, an some ceeties.
• Sooth o the Faiyum Oasis, a smawer depression contains the toun o El Gharaq el Sulţāni. It is an aa irrigatit frae the Nile.
• A dry barren depression named Wadi Elrayan, which covers 280 mi² (725 km²), wast o the El Gharaq el Sulţāni depression.
• Desert an dry muntains, which maistly surroond the depressions.

Ceeties

• Faiyum
• Senuris

See an aa

• Egyptian Fayoumi Chicken.
• Faiyum Oasis
• Lake Moeris
• Bahr Yussef
• Faiyum mummy portraits
• Wadi Elrayan

Freemit airtins

• Fayoum Govrenorate Archived 2013-03-02 at the Wayback Machine Offeecial wabsteid

 This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)