The province of Sohag one Lower cardiac, and away 467 km from Cairo, bounded north province of Assiut, south Qena and east Red Sea Governorate and west New Valley Governorate, stretching conservative Lengthened by about 125 km on the Nile River, and covers an area of conservative college 6546 km, and inhabited area 154.7 km 2. Covers the rural sector of 130.7 km 2 by 84%.
The province consists of (11) administrative center, (11), (3) neighborhoods, (51) and rural local units, (268) village of, (1217) Kafr and Naga total (1468) combines a rural residential.
Includes conservative (7) colleges, and a center for scientific research, (12) a vocational training center, and the number of schools pre-university education (1247) School of General Education, located them in the rural sector (917) School, (317) School of Education Azhari resides whom sector Rural (311) school.
The cultivated area of 295,600 acres and a viable area of Reclamation 22058 acres, and is famous for its crops of wheat and onions, beans, cotton, sugarcane, maize and sorghum, as of the total area viable reclamation 17011 acres.
Contribute to maintaining the industrial activity through the sugar industry, textile, hydrogenated oils, semolina flour, pasta major Ksnaat and weaving, kilim rugs and Cabinetmaking junior Ksnaat. There are also several mega projects in the governorate and sanitation projects factory sugar Gerga, pasta pasta Btma, industrial area west of Sohag.
Sohag Governorate has provided one of the finest sons a lot who were given to Egypt and the Arab and Islamic world great Ataoua in various fields remind them of the pioneers of modern scientific renaissance:
* Sheikh Refaa Rafie al-Tahtawi.
* Sheikh Yusuf pro.
* Sheikh Mustafa Maraghi former Sheikh of Al-Azhar mosque.
** Grand Imam Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Sheikh Al-Azhar Mosque.
** Adm. Omar Abdel other governor Cairo.
** Adviser Ahmed Abdul Rahim Al Hammadi and agent of the People's Assembly.
** Dr. Mohammed Hisham Sharif Advisor to the Minister of State for Administrative Development and General Supervisor of the information centers and Decision Support under the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers.
** Brigadier Ali Osman Ali Beltk commander destruction processes destroyers Schaaf and Beit Yam Alasraúalitin.
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Egypt