Red Sea Governorate

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Red Sea (البحر الأحمر)
Governorate
Country Flag of Egypt Egypt
Capital Hurghada
Map of Egypt with Red Sea highlighted
Map of Egypt with Red Sea highlighted

Red Sea Governorate (Arabic: البحر الأحمر "El Bahr El Ahmar") is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is located between the Nile and the Red Sea in the southeast of the country and its southern border forms part of Egypt's border with Sudan. Its capital is Hurghada.

Governors of the Red Sea Governorate
From To Name
Nov 1961 Jun 1965 Abd Aziz Mustafa
Jul 1965 Oct 1965 Hamid Mahmoud
Oct 1965 May 1968 Mohamed Sief Al-Yazl Khalefa
May 1968 Sep 1969 Hasan Kamel Mahamed
Jan 1970 Mar 1976 Soliman Mohamed Mazhar
Mar 1976 Nov 1976 Ibrahim Fouad Nassar
Nov 1976 Dec 1980 Aly Ahmed Othman
Jan 1981 May 1991 Youssef Afify Mohamed
May 1991 Aug 1991 Mohamed Salah Musbah
Aug 1991 Oct 1993 Mohamed Yosry Al-Shamy
Oct 1993 Jan 1996 Abdel Moniem Said
Jan 1996 Jul 1997 Mohamed Zaher Abdel Rahman
Jul 1997 Jan 2006 Saad Abou Reda
Jan 2006 Apr 2008 Abou Bakr Hassan Al-Rashedy
Apr 2008 Date Mohamed Magdy Kobeicy