Sharqia Governorate

Sharqia, along with the rest of the eastern portion of the Nile Delta, it is often identified with the Biblical Land of Goshen.

• Name — Sharqia Governorate • Native Name — محافظة الشرقية • Settlement Type — Governorate • Blank Emblem Type — Seal • Blank Emblem Size — 75px • Subdivision Type — Country • Seat — Zagazig (capital) • Leader Title — Governor • Leader Name — Shazem El-Ashmouni • Area Total Km2 — 4,180 • Population Total — 7859068 • Population As Of — January 2023 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Demographics Type1 — GDP • Demographics1 Title1 — Total • Demographics1 Info1 — EGP 302 billion (US$ 19.2 billion) • Timezone1 — EGY • Utc Offset1 — +2 • Timezone1 Dst — EEST • Utc Offset1 Dst — +3 • Blank Name Sec2 — HDI (2021) • Blank Info Sec2 — 0.73 high · 14th • Website — http: www.sharkia.gov.eg/

• Illustration — Farms in Diarb Negm The capital of the governorate is Zagazig and Sharqia has a strong industrial and agricultural sector. Sharqia is the third most populous governorate in Egypt and is considered the birthplace of many historical leaders and figures in Egypt.

The governorate is divided into the following municipal divisions for administrative purposes, with a total estimated population as of January 2023 of 7,021,046. In some instances there is a markaz and a kism with the same name. Municipal divisions • Anglicized name — Native name — Arabic transliteration — Population (January 2023 est.) — Type • Abu Hammad — مركز أبو حماد — 465,376 — Markaz • Abu Kebir — مركز أبو كبير — 491,984 — Markaz • El Husseiniya — مركز الحسينية — El-Ḥusayniya — 373,774 — Markaz • El Ibrahimiya — مركز الأبراهيمية — El-Ibrāhīmiya — 200,590 — Markaz • El Qanayat — قسم القنايات — 74,611 — Kism (fully urban) • El Qurein — قسم القرين — El-Qurayn — 99,884 — Kism (fully urban) • New Salhia — قسم الصالحية الجديدة — Eṣ-Ṣaliḥiyah el-Jedīda — 62,610 — Kism (fully urban) • Awlad Saqr — مركز أولاد صقر — 244,870 — Markaz • Zagazig 1 — قسم اول الزقازيق — 208,682 — Kism (fully urban) • Zagazig 2 — قسم ثان الزقازيق — 245,662 — Kism (fully urban) • Zagazig — مركز الزقازيق — 933,504 — Markaz • Bilbeis — مركز بلبيس — Bilbays — 889,709 — Markaz • Diyarb Negm — مركز ديرب نجم — Diyarb Najm — 532,950 — Markaz • Faqous — قسم فاقوس — 104,244 — Kism (fully urban) • Faqous — مركز فاقوس — 654,084 — Markaz • Hihya — مركز ههيا — Hihyā — 326,627 — Markaz • Kafr Saqr — مركز كفر صقر — Kafr Ṣaqr — 302,084 — Markaz • 10th of Ramadan City 1 — قسم أول مدينة عشرة رمضان — Madīnat 'Ashirh min-Ramaḍān 1 — 87,808 — Kism (fully urban) • 10th of Ramadan City 2 — قسم ثان مدينة عشرة رمضان — Madīnat 'Ashirh min-Ramaḍān 2 — 171,997 — Kism (fully urban) • Mashtool El Souk — مركز مشتول السوق — Mashtūl es-Sūq — 241,857 — Markaz • Minya El Qamh — مركز منيا القمح — Minyā el-Qamḥ — 831,505 — Markaz • Minshat Abu Omar — مركز منشاه ابوعمر — Munshāh Abū 'Umar — 86,670 — Markaz • Tanis — مركز صان الحجر — Ṣān el-Ḥajar — 158,443 — Markaz

According to population estimates, in 2015 the majority of residents in the governorate lived in rural areas, with an urbanization rate of 25%. Out of an estimated 6,485,412 people residing in the governorate in 2015, 4,987,707 people lived in rural areas and 1,497,705 lived in urban areas.

According to the Governing Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI), the following industrial zones are located in Sharqia: • Zone name • 10th of Ramadan Industrial Zone • New El Salhia Industrial Zone

The following cities and towns are located in Sharqia Governorate. Table • Name — Population (2006 census) — Location • 10th of Ramadan — 29,601 — • Abu Hammad — 36,592 — • Abu Kebir — 104,100 — • Awlad Saqr — 19,515 — • Bilbeis — 141,285 — • Diyarb Negm — 52,611 — • El Husseiniya — 29,565 — • El Ibrahimiya — 35,022 — • El Qurein — 64,559 — • Faqous — 73,081 — • Hihya — 43,672 — • Kafr Saqr — 30,004 — • Mashtool El Souk — 47,153 — • Minya El Qamh — 67,450 — • El Salheya El Gedida — 9,350 — • Qanayat — 75,000 — • Zagazig — 318,393 —

• Ramses II, Egyptian pharaoh • El-Said Badawi, sociolinguist • Mohamed Morsi, former President of Egypt • Ahmed Shafik, former Prime Minister of Egypt and Presidential Candidate for the 2012 Egyptian presidential election • The Abaza Family, Egypt's largest aristocratic family of Circassian Abazin origin. • Mohammed Ahmed Sadek, army general • Ahmed Subhy Mansour, founder of the Quranist movement • Sayed Marei, engineer and politician • Abdel Halim Hafez, popular singer and actor • Miral al-Tahawy, award-winning Bedouin novelist • Yusuf Abu Rayya, award-winning novelist • Husayn Fawzi Al Najjar, political historian and Islamic scholar • Magdi Yacoub, professor of cardiothoracic surgery • Ahmed Fouad Negm, vernacular poet • Rushdy Abaza, actor • Fekry Pasha Abaza, journalist and political activist • Ahmed 'Urabi, the leader of the 1881 nationalist uprising against the British • Hamada Helal, singer • Mounira El Mahdeya, singer and actress • Emad Moteab, footballer • Ahmed el-Mansy, an officer who was killed in clashes with terrorists in North Sinai • Aly Saad, professor of cardiology