Kafr el-Sheikh
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Kafr el-Sheikh (Arabic: كفر الشيخ) is the capital of Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, about 134 km north of Cairo, in the Nile Delta. As of November 2006, the town had a population of 147,380 inhabitants.[1]
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[edit] Industry
[edit] Factories
- There is a rice mill factory in Kafr el-Sheikh. [2]
- There is a factory of poultry forage in Kafr el-Sheikh. [2]
[edit] Notable residents
- Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorists that orchestrated the September 11, 2001 attacks<[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Egypten. Accesed 11 November 2006.
- ^ a b Kafr Elsheikh Governrate sic
- ^ Hooper, John. "The shy, caring, deadly fanatic", The Guardian, September 23, 2001.
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