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Faiyum Govrenorate on the map o Egyp
Faiyum Govrenorate
(
Arabic
:
??????? ??????
Mu??fa?at al Fayy?m
) is ane o the
govrenorates
o
Egyp
in the middle o the kintra. Its caipital is the ceety o
Faiyum
, locatit aboot 81 mi (130 km) sooth wast o
Cairo
. It haes a population o 2,512,792 (2006).
[1]
The name Faiyum comes frae
Coptic
'????
/
?????
efiom/peiom
(whence the proper name
?????
payoum
), meanin
the Sea
or
the Lake
, which in turn comes frae late
Egyptian
pA y-m
o the same meanin, a reference tae the nearbi
Lake Moeris
.
The govrenorate o Faiyum includes:
- The muckle fertile
Faiyum Oasis
, which comprises fermland,
Lake Moeris
, an some ceeties.
- Sooth o the Faiyum Oasis, a smawer depression contains the toun o El Gharaq el Sul??ni. It is an aa irrigatit frae the
Nile
.
- A dry barren depression named
Wadi Elrayan
, which covers 280 mi² (725 km²), wast o the El Gharaq el Sul??ni depression.
- Desert an dry muntains, which maistly surroond the depressions.
- ↑
[1]
This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the
public domain
:
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "
article name needed
".
Encyclopædia Britannica
(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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link
)
Coordinates
:
29°21′48″N
30°44′45″E
/
29.36333°N 30.74583°E
/
29.36333; 30.74583
