| | Al Fayyum Governorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Al Fayyum (Arabic:ألفيوم) is one of the governorates of Egypt located in the centre of the country. |
 | | Having an area of 490 mile² (1,270 km²), Al Fayyum is an oasis and a distinctive region in character between the main Nile Valley and other desert oases: its fields are watered by a channel of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it drains into a desert depression to the west of the Nile Valley. |
 | | The Fayyum was known to the Ancient Egyptians as the twenty-first nome of Upper Egypt, Atef-Pehu ("Northern Sycamore"). |
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