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 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").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Fayyum_Governorate   (958 words)

  
 Al Gharbiyah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is located in the north of the country, south of Kafr ash Shaykh Governorate, and north of Al Minufiyah.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Gharbiyah   (106 words)

  
 Al Fayyum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al Fayyum or El Faiyûm (Arabic:الفيوم) is the capital of Al Fayyum Governorate, Egypt.
While part of the Roman Empire, Egyptian death masks were painted on wood in a pigmented wax technique called encaustic, and the mummy portrait from al Fayyum representes this technique.
It is located southwest of Cairo and has a population of 166,910.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Fayyum   (199 words)

  
 Ojor.Com - Al Fayyum - Egypt - Home --(World Cities Communities)
Fayyum, al- muandhsubdot;andamacr;faandzsubdot;ah (governorate) of Upper Egypt, in a great depression of the Western Desert southwest of Cairo.
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