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 AREA AND POPULATION

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excluding the Sudan, is about 350,000 square miles ; but the cultivated and settled area, that is, the Nile Valley and Delta, covers only ]. square miles. Canals, roads, date plantations, &c, cover 1,900 square miles ; 2,850 square miles are comprised in the surface of the Nile, marshes, and lakes. Egypt is divided into two great districts — ' Masr-el-Bahri,' or Lower Egypt, and 'El-Said,' or Upper Egypt.

The following table gives the area of the settled land surface, and the results of the census taken in Mar h, 1917 : —

Administrative

Area in

Total

Population

Division

sq. miles

Population 790,939

per sq. mile

x /'Cairo.

•;•_'

$ 1 Alexandria

19

444,617

23.401

£ 1 Daniietta

11

s ■! (Port Said

3 1 Canal < and

o 1 Usraailia

ij+ii

91,090

30,363

O I^Suez.

3

30,996

10,332

Frontier District-.

?

70.351

Provinces :

i. ^Beheira

i.ra

892,246

i£ 1 Daqahliyu.

1,006

986,643

981

H | Gharbiya.

•313

r \ Menufiya.

5 1 Qalyubiya

3 Uharqiya. .

606

1,072,636

1,770

na

52-

1,322

.497

Provinces :

-

r ASTt'lt.

981,197

g

Aswan

IM

253,340

1,508

ff.

Beiii-teuei. Faiyilm

Mb

45'J. ' 507,017

1.107

a

Girga.

57<"i

S63.234

1,499

£

Giza.

Ml


 * .352

1,317

-

Miuya.

651

763, '.'22

1,173

.Qona.

7-". 1

>40.317

1,114

Total.

12.U23

12,750,918

1,061

The growth of the general population of the country is exhibited by the following figures : —

1800 (French estimate). .2,460,200 1897 (Census). . . . 9,734,405 1821 (Muhammad Ali). . 2,536,400 1907 (Census). . . . 11,287,359

1846 (Census) 4,476,440 1917 (Census). . . . 12,750,918

1882 (Census, 6,831,131 I

The average annual increase from 1S46 to 1882 was 125 per cent. ; from 1882 to 1897, 2-76 per cent. ; 1897-1907, 149 per cent. ; from 1846-1907, 1 53 per cent.

For details of the census of 1907, sec The Statesman's Year-Book for 1915, pp. 250-1.

Estimated population, Julv 1, 1919 : 12,878,000. Births registered, 1919, 493,507 ; deaths, 383,872,

The principal towns, with their populations, according to the results of the census of 1917, are :— Cairo, 790,939 ; Alexandria, 444,617 Port Said (including Ismailia), 91,090 ; Suez, 30,996 : Damietta, 30.9S4 Tanta, 74,195; Mansura, 49,238; Zagazig, 41,741; Damanhur, 47.S67 Benha, 18,607; Shibin el-Kom, 24,604 : Asyt'it, 51,431 ; Aswan, 11,203 Beni Suet, 31,986 ; Faiyiim, 44,400; Sohag, 20,760; Giza, 18,714; Qena 23,357 ; Minya, 34,945.

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