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Industrial Development in Aswan

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<strong>Aswan</strong> Governorate<br />

Overview on the governorate:<br />

<strong>Aswan</strong> is the most beautiful w<strong>in</strong>ter resorts <strong>in</strong> Egypt and even <strong>in</strong> the world<br />

where the dry, the warm sun and calm, which hangs<br />

over everyplace and where the boats flow on the surface of the immortal<br />

Nile <strong>Aswan</strong> knows by Psono <strong>in</strong> the ages of the ancient Egyptians,<br />

mean<strong>in</strong>g amarketwherethetrad<strong>in</strong>g center for caravans com<strong>in</strong>g from<br />

the And to Nuba and then called <strong>in</strong> the Ptolemaic the "S<strong>in</strong>" and the<br />

Nubians called it "Ibaswan" and also known as the country' of<br />

gold because it was a great treasure or the tomb of the Nubian k<strong>in</strong>gs,<br />

who lived there for thousands of years. <strong>Aswan</strong>'s boarders were<br />

extend<strong>in</strong>g before migration from Esna east to the borders of <strong>Aswan</strong> <strong>in</strong> the<br />

south .Its population are from Nubians, after the Islamic conquest<br />

of Nubia, some Arab tribes <strong>in</strong>habited there and named it <strong>Aswan</strong>.<br />

Location Z<br />

<strong>Aswan</strong> is located <strong>in</strong> the far south of Egypt bordered by the governorate of<br />

Sharqia from the north, Qena from the east, the Red Sea governorate and<br />

the New Valley governorate from the west and the political<br />

borders with Sudan from the south. The length of the governorate<br />

is 480 km from north to south and the capital is the city of <strong>Aswan</strong>, where<br />

it located on the eastern shore of the Nile where part of it located<br />

on the pla<strong>in</strong>, which boarded by the Nile and the other side by the hills,<br />

which represents the distance of the eastern desert plateau , the city<br />

of <strong>Aswan</strong>, ris<strong>in</strong>g about 85 meters above the sea.<br />

Area:<br />

The total area of the governorate is 62726 km 2 while the area of the<br />

Republic is 1,009,449.81 km2 and<br />

the percentage space between <strong>Aswan</strong> and thearea of the Republic is<br />

6.21%<br />

The populated area of the governorate is 1004.77 km 2 and the Republic<br />

is 7899.23 km<br />

The unused space of the governorate is 98%.<br />

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