Kafr al-Zayyat [1] [2] ( Arabic. كفر الزيات ) is the city and center of the district in the governorate of Garbia in Egypt .
| City | |
| Kafr ez-Zayyat | |
|---|---|
| Arab. كفر الزيات | |
| A country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Garbia |
| History and Geography | |
| Center height | |
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| Population | |
| Population | 72,998 people ( 2006 ) |
It is located in the west of the governorship, 14 km west of the center of the governorship of Tanta , on the right bank of the main western arm of the Nile ( Rashid ), almost exactly between Cairo and Alexandria . Kafr ez-Zayyat is also located on the Cairo-Alexandria highway. Railroad station. The population of the city is 72,998 people ( 2006 ) [3] . The industry is represented by the production of fertilizers, paper and cardboard, insecticides, oils, soaps, and the chemical industry.
District
About 500,000 people live in the Kafr al-Zayyat region (2007). Area 1230 km². The proportion of illiterates over the age of 15 years is 19%.
Notes
- ↑ Egypt // Atlas of the World / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 145. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
- ↑ Kafr-ez-Zayyat // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / ed. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986.- S. 156.
- ↑ Cities in Egypt: 2005 Population Estimates