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Map of Egypt's municipal divisions. Map of administrative divisions (Markaz) of Egypt. At the municipal-level are markaz, kism, police-administered areas, and new cities. Generally, rural areas are divided into markaz whereas urban areas are divided into kism.
List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions; List of autonomous areas by country; List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population
This is a list of first-level administrative divisions by area (including surface water) in square kilometres. ... Egypt: 212,112 km² 538,546 2nd 2.5/km²
Former subdivisions of Egypt (1 C, 6 P) G. Governorates of Egypt (29 C, 31 P) R. Regional units of Egypt (1 P) Regions of Egypt (2 C, 9 P) Pages in category ...
The following list sorts first-level administrative divisions of countries according to their number of inhabitants. Only administrative units of the highest order are listed. Regions formed for statistical purposes without administrative autonomy, such as the KantÅ region in Japan or the eight federal districts of Russia
The kura remained the chief administrative unit of Egypt well into the Middle Ages. It was not until the 1070s that the vizier Badr al-Jamali, the de facto ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate, abolished them and replaced them with 23 provinces (14 in Lower Egypt and 9 in Upper Egypt), which in broad outlines survive to the present day, as the Egyptian governorates.
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Egypt produces its own energy, but has been a net oil importer since 2008 and is rapidly becoming a net importer of natural gas. [230] Egypt produced 691,000 bbl/d of oil and 2,141.05 Tcf of natural gas in 2013, making the country the largest non-OPEC producer of oil and the second-largest dry natural gas producer in Africa. In 2013, Egypt was ...