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Kafr el-Sheikh Govrenorate (Arabic: محافظة كفر الشيخ Muḥāfaẓat Kafr aš Šayḫ) is ane o the govrenorates o Egyp. It lies in the north o the kintra alang the wastren branch o the Nile in the Nile Delta. Its caipital is the ceety o Kafr el-Sheikh.
Kafr el-Sheikh Govrenorate, which wis ance pairt o the Gharbia Govrenorate, wis creatit in 1949. It wis oreeginally named Fuadiyah in honour o Keeng Fuad I o Egyp. Efter the 1952 Revolution an the subsequent abolition o the monarchy, the govrenorate teuk the name o its caipital ceety Kafr el-Sheikh. This name, adoptit in 1955, means "the veelage o the chief".[1]
The region occupied the day bi the Kafr el-Sheikh govrenorate haes been weel kent syne the era o the Auncient Egyptian. The caipital o Lawer Egyp, cried "Puto", is locatit the day at Tel el-Faraain (the hill o the Pharaohs), near Desouk.
Lake Burullus is locatit in the north o the Kafr el-Sheikh govrenorate.
The govrenorate comprises 11 ceeties:
Industries include cotton-processin factories, rice an fishin.
Kafr el-Sheikh Varsity comprises faculties for Commerce, Ingineerin, Agricultur, Veterinary Medicine, Airts, Pheesical Eddication, Science, Eddication, an Special Eddication.
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