Egypt map quiz
Can you find all 27 Egyptian governorates?
Quizzes in this pack
Egypt: governorates, cities.
| Governorates | 27 questions |
| Cities | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- Northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, borders Israel and Gaza
- Answer: North Sinai
- Governorate at the southern end of the Suez Canal, on the Gulf of Suez
- Answer: Suez
- Governorate midway along the Suez Canal, on Lake Timsah
- Answer: Ismailia
- Capital and largest city in Africa, home to the Egyptian Museum and Islamic Cairo
- Answer: Cairo
- Central Delta governorate north of Cairo, birthplace of president Anwar Sadat
- Answer: Monufia
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North Sinai
North Sinai, Egypt
North Sinai is desert and Mediterranean coast between the Suez Canal and Egypt's north-eastern border, with its capital El Arish. Lake Bardawil, a shallow lagoon behind a long sandbar, is a resting place for millions of migrating birds.
- Known for
- Lake Bardawil, El Arish, desert
New Valley
Western Egypt, the desert
New Valley covers much of Egypt's Western Desert, with the oases of Kharga, Dakhla and Farafra. Near Farafra, the White Desert has chalk rocks carved by the wind into mushrooms and other strange shapes.
- Known for
- The White Desert, oases, the Western Desert
Al Sharqia
Nile Delta, Egypt
Sharqia is the eastern Nile Delta, farmland laced with canals, with its capital Zagazig. Near it lie the ruins of Bubastis, city of the cat goddess Bastet, and at Tanis pharaohs once had their capital.
- Known for
- Zagazig, Bubastis, canals
Beheira
Nile Delta, Egypt
Beheira lies in the western Nile Delta. At Rashid, better known as Rosetta, French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone in 1799; its same text in three scripts let scholars read hieroglyphs. The town keeps old Ottoman houses of patterned brick.
- Known for
- Rosetta, the Rosetta Stone, Ottoman houses
Faiyum
Northern Egypt, an oasis
Fayoum is a big oasis basin west of the Nile, with Lake Qarun. In Wadi Al-Hitan, the Valley of the Whales, skeletons of whales that still had small hind legs lie in the desert sand. The Fayum mummy portraits come from here.
- Known for
- Wadi Al-Hitan, Lake Qarun, mummy portraits
Gharbia
Nile Delta, Egypt
Gharbia lies in the middle of the Nile Delta. Tanta, its capital, has the mosque of the Sufi saint Ahmad al-Badawi, whose festival draws millions every year. El-Mahalla el-Kubra is the centre of Egypt's cotton cloth industry.
- Known for
- Tanta, al-Badawi, cotton
How it works
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