Kafr Elshiekh

Kafer El-Sheikh governorate is located in the north of Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea coast with 100 km long. It is surrounded from the west by the Rashid branch with coast equal to 85 km long until it pores in the Mediterranean Sea. From the east, it is surrounded by the Dakahliya governorate and from the south there is the Gharbiya governorate.
- It pharos name was “Dimlkoun” then it became Kafer El-Sheikh Talhaa it is named after the imam Talhaa Abi Saeed Ebn Medeen El-Telmsani given that his family grand grand father is the imam El-Hussien Ebn Ali Ebn Abi Taleb.
- The governorate total population is equal to 469893 and its total area is equal to 3748 km2. The national day of the governorate is on November 4th in the memorial of El-Borulse was in 1956.
- The capital of the governorate is Kafer El-Sheikh headquarter which includes 9 main villages, 38 small villages and 246 manors. The main villages and the extended small villages are as follows:
Masire: Menyit Masire, Metboul, Kafer Metboul, El-Tayfaa, Kafer El-Tayfaa.
Mahlet Mousa: Rezka Ammay, Abaadiya El-Roda, Roinyaa, El-Nataff.
Kafer El-Hamrawi: Kafer Abu Table, El-Kerdaa, Shino, Rezkaa El-shinawi, Defriya, Kafer Defriya.
Dekalt: Adrbgaa, Abu Tmadaa, Monshat El-Saff.
Sidi Ghazy: Dekmira, Nassra, El-Khadeen, Kafer El-Mrabeen.
Ashakaa: Karraga, Btitaa, Kafer Asskar, El-Shmarkaa.
Arimoon: Halice, Kafer El-Menshaa El-Bahery.
El-Hamraa: El-Hudod, ElTrabiya, Sandlaa, El-Bkhanice, Mahlet El-Kassab, Belshashaa, El-Kafer El-Gadid, Mostafa Kamel.
- The governorate is famous by its rice, beet, wheat and cotton production. Also there are many industries such as beet sugar, soap, rice and cotton ginning.
- The tourism visits in the governorate is divided into the following:
1. Amusement tourism: such as Balteem, El-Berulose Lake and Dusoke park.
2. Religious tourism: such as Sidy Ibrahim El-Dusoky Mosque and the virgin Marry church.
3. Historical and ancient tourism: such as Sakha, El-fraaeen hill, Kberyit hill and Saad Zaghloul house in Abiyana village, Mtoubse headquarter.
4. Internal Tourism; such as Adfina arch, Military antiques as El-Ayash and Orabi Tabya in Balteem and military antiques from the era of Mohamed Ali Family.