Egypt

Administrative units

administrative units	capital	area (sq.km.)	population 1996-11-19 census	population 2006-11-11 census
source: CAPMAS (Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics ), Egypt.
Desert / Frontier		853,016	818,055	1,286,917
El Wadi El Gidid (New Valley)	El Kharga	376,505	141,774	187,256
Matrouh	Marsa Matruh	212,112	212,001	322,341
North Sinai	El Arish	27,574	252,160	339,752
Red Sea	Hurghada	203,685	157,314	288,233
South Sinai	El Tur	33,140	54,806	149,335
Lower Egypt		27,724	25,796,372	31,233,338
Behera	Damanhur	10,130	3,994,297	4,737,129
Dakahlia	El Mansura	3,471	4,223,338	4,985,187
Damietta	Dumyat	589	913,555	1,092,316
Gharbia	Tanta	1,942	3,404,339	4,010,298
Ismailia	Isma'iliya	1,442	714,828	942,832
Kafr-El-Sheikh	Kafr el Sheikh	3,437	2,223,383	2,618,111
Kalyoubia	Benha	1,001	3,281,135	4,237,003
Menoufia	Shibin el Kom	1,532	2,760,429	3,270,404
Sharkia	Zagazig	4,180	4,281,068	5,340,058
Upper Egypt		96,194	21,271,183	26,629,099
Aswan	Aswan	679	960,510	1,184,432
Asyout	Asyut	1,553	2,802,334	3,441,597
Beni-Suef	Beni Suef	1,322	1,859,213	2,290,527
Fayoum	El Faiyum	1,827	1,989,772	2,512,792
Giza	El Giza	85,153	4,784,095	6,272,571
Menia	El Minya	2,262	3,310,129	4,179,309
Qena	Qena	1,851	2,442,016	3,001,494
Suhag	Sohag	1,547	3,123,114	3,746,377
Urban		20,860	11,391,062	13,429,676
Alexandria	-	2,679	3,339,076	4,110,015
Cairo	-	214	6,800,991	7,786,640
Luxur	-	55	361,138	451,318
Port Said	-	72	472,331	570,768
Suez	-	17,840	417,526	510,935
total		997,739	59,276,672	72,579,030

name	population 1996-11-19 census
El Qahirah [EN Cairo]	6,789,479
Al Iskandariyah [EN Alexandria]	3,328,196
Giza	2,221,868
Shubra-El-Khema	870,716
Port Said	469,533
As Suways [EN Suez]	417,610
El-Mahalla El-Kubra	395,402
Tanta	371,010
Mansûra	369,621
Luxor	360,503
Assyût	343,498
Zagazig	267,351
Faiyûm	260,964
Ismailia	254,477
Kafr-El-Dwar	231,978
Aswan	219,017
Damanhûr	212,203
Al Minya	201,360
Bani Suwayf (Beni Suef)	172,032
Qina (Kena)	171,275
Sawhaj (Sohag)	170,125
Shibin al-Kawm	159,909
Banha	145,792
Kafr ash-Shaykh	124,819
Mallawi	119,283
Bilbays	113,608
Mit Ghamr	101,801
Al-'Arish	100,447
source: CAPMAS (Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics ), National Information Center (NIC), Nasr City, Cairo. note: population data is from provisional census figures.