Kafr el-Sheikh

Kafr el-Sheikh

Kafr el-Sheikh ( _ar. 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. [ [http://www.capmas.gov.eg/ "Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics", Egypten] . Accesed 11 November 2006.]

Industry

Factories

*There is a rice mill factory in Kafr el-Sheikh. [http://www.kafrtp.gov.eg/kafrinfo.aspx/ "Kafr Elsheikh Governrate"] sic]
*There is a factory of poultry forage in Kafr el-Sheikh.

Notable residents

*Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorists that orchestrated the September 11, 2001 attacks<cite news |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,,556630,00.html |title=The shy, caring, deadly fanatic |publisher=The Guardian |date=September 23, 2001 |author=Hooper, John]

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