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View from the west bank of the Nile, islands, and Aswan. The Nile is nearly 650 m (0.40 mi) wide above Aswan. From this frontier town to the northern extremity of Egypt, the river flows for more than 1,200 km (750 mi) without bar or cataract. The voyage from Aswan to Alexandria usually took 21 to 28 days in favorable weather.
Flooding reached Aswan about a week earlier than Cairo, and Luxor five to six days earlier than Cairo. Typical heights of flood were 45 feet (14 metres) at Aswan, 38 feet (12 metres) at Luxor (and Thebes) and 25 feet (7.6 metres) at Cairo. [1]
This is a list of governorates of Egypt by GDP and GDP per capita. The Egyptian pound (EGP) has been converted to the international dollar using the IMF's Purchasing Power Parity conversion rate (one International dollar per 4.538 EGP in 2021).
Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world. Egypt receives between 20 mm (0.79 in) and 200 mm (7.87 in) of annual average precipitation along the narrow Mediterranean coast, but south from Cairo, the
The southernmost governorate in Upper Egypt, covering most of Lake Nasser. The Governorate's capital is Aswan. The Aswan Governorate borders Qena Governorate to the north, Red Sea Governorate to the east, New Valley Governorate to the west, and Sudan's Northern state to the south. It has a population of 1,394,687 inhabitants (2014), and ...
First in 1902 due to the construction of the Aswan Lower Dam, then in both 1912 and 1933 due to the rising water levels, and a fourth time after the creation of the Aswan High Dam. The forced relocation stripped many native Nubians of their ancestral homelands, with the compensation of unsuitable homes for living and agriculture.
New Aswan (Arabic: أسوان الجديدة) is a city in the Aswan Governorate, Egypt. See also. Egypt portal; List of cities and towns in Egypt; References
Until 1974, the ruins of temples and an ancient Egyptian city were located here. They were damaged by several decades of seasonal submergence of the lake holding back the old Aswan Dam. [2] [3] With the commissioning of the Aswan High Dam in 1970, there was a threat of permanent flooding of the area. [4]