New Valley Governorate (Alwadi Aljadeed) is located in the southwest of the Egyptian Republic and include the southern parts of Western Sahara by 56% of its area, and shares international borders with Libya to the west, and Sudan in the south. The borders are shared with the provinces of Giza and cordons Marsa Matrouh in the north and the provinces (Minya - Assiut - Qena - Aswan) to the east.
The New Valley Governorate of the largest provinces in terms of area and the least in population density with a conservative area of 376,505 km 2, and the number of Population at the end of 1996 stood at 141,737, of whom 73,318 people in the rural sector by 51.7% and the average population increase nearly 2%.
The administrative capital of the province is the city and beyond and away from Cairo 600 km in a south-westerly direction, and away from the city of Assiut, 228 km in the same direction. The town of Mut capital center within a distance of 190 km in the direction of west emerging center is located Farafra at a distance of 350 km in the direction of the northwestern city of Dakhla, and composed the province of 3 administrative centers includes 3 cities also includes 17 rural local units include 110 villages.
Includes maintaining a branch of the College of Education, Assiut University and Gary the establishment of the College of Agriculture, and the number of public schools in the province of New Valley 230 schools including 154 schools in the rural sector by 67% and 29 institutes of education Azhari 15 of them in the rural sector.
The cultivated area of 69,717 acres, is the most important crop-Balah, where the number of palm trees more than a million palm trees as well as wheat, onions and tomatoes.
Of the most important industries in the governorate and packaging industry Balah, carpets and kilims, arabesques of palm fronds, distilling essential oils and some food industries.
The phosphate project is Abu weakling of the major mining projects giant nationwide where crude reserves estimated at 987 million tons and the project aims to produce 202 million tons of phosphate ore a year.
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Egypt