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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 occupies an area of 62,726 square kilometres (24,219 sq mi).
The local power of the old families and the headmen revived but more at the expense of peasants than of the state. The district police station balanced the notables, and the system of local government (the mayor and council) integrated them into the regime. [15] Until 1979, local government enjoyed limited power in Egypt's highly centralized state.
The government has tried with mixed success to encourage migration to newly irrigated land reclaimed from the desert. However, the proportion of the population living in rural areas has continued to decrease as people move to the megacities in search of employment and a higher standard of living .
Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dam on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine .
The state with the largest population is Khartoum with 7,993,851 and the state with the smallest population is the Northern State with 936,235 as of 2018. [1] As of 2015, the Northern state is the only state in Sudan not to have surpassed 1 million in total population.
Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. From the 1850s until the 1930s, Egypt's economy was heavily reliant on long-staple cotton, introduced in the mid-1820s during the reign of Muhammad Ali (1805–49) and made possible by the switch from basin irrigation to perennial, modern irrigation. [25]
The first of these was centered on Elephantine close to Egypt's border with Nubia at the First Cataract – the area of modern-day Aswan. From there the numbering progressed downriver in an orderly fashion along the narrow fertile strip of land that was the Nile valley.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. Ethnic group This article is about the contemporary Nile Valley ethnic group. For other uses, see Egyptian (disambiguation). For information on the population of Egypt, see Demographics of Egypt. Ethnic group Egyptians Total population 120 million (2017) Regions with significant ...