Kafr El Sheikh Governorate

The Governorate's national day : 4th November commemorating the Burullus battlefield that took place in 1956.
Emblem: It shows a pharaonic canoe having two spikes of rice grain, which the governorate is famous for. The three chained rings signify the agricultural cooperative system.
Kafr El Sheikh lies in the far North of the Republic. It is bordered in the North by the Mediterranean Sea, in the West by Rosetta branch that stretch by 85 km Till its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea, in the East, by Dakahleyia, and in the south by Gharbeyia. Kafr El Sheikh City is the Governorate's capitel.
Kafr El Sheikh is located in the delta region that encompasses Gharbia, Menofya, Dakahleyia, Kafr El sheikh, and Damietta governorates. The name is attributed to the Sufi Sheikh Talha Abi Saied El Telmesany dwscending from Moroccan origin, who settled in the governorate in year 600 Hijri.
The governorate covers an area of 3466.7 km2 representing 0.34% of the Republic's total area. It includes 10 Marakz, 11 cities, 49 rural local units annexed by 206 villages,and 1559 Hamlets. According to the preliminary results of the 2006 census, the total population is 2.6 million people of whom 23% live in urban areas, and 77% in rural areas. The population growth rate has reached 19.3 per thousand.
Kafr El Sheikh is an agricultural governorate, with total cultivated lands of 602.1 thousand feddans. It is famous for the production of rice , beets, wheat, and cotton.
The governorate contributes to the industrial activities by many major industries: dairy products, oil and soap, fodders, milling rice, cotton ginning and spinning, and beets sugar. There are several fish farms in the governorate as well. In an effort to enhance investment, the Prime Minister issued a decree that provides for the establishment of the first industrial zone in Balteem, covering 114 feddans, and a second industrial zone along the international coastal road in Metobbas over 1160 feddans.
The governorate is endowed with diversified highlights including entertainment tourism in Balteem summer resort, El Burullus lake, and Desook Park in addition to religious highlights including Mosques of Seedy Talha Abi Saied El Telmesany, Seedy Ibrahim El Desooky, as well as the Virgin Mary Church. Moreover, it includes historical places and monuments in Tal Sakha, Tal El Fraeen, Koom El Ouman, Koom El Heira, in addition to the leader Saad Zaghloul House.
The governorate hosts natural protectorates pursuant to the Prime Minister's decree No.1444/1998 stipulating that el Burullus Lake is a natural protectorate which is located on th north east of Rosetta Branch and is bordered in the north by the international coastal road extending from Rafah till Saloum.
Aiming at building a basic IT infrastructure and in cooperation with the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), 76 information centers were established to support decision making process on all managerial levels in the governorate. The highest caliber of local administration staff are working there. In addition, two IT training centers in the governorate Main Department "Diwan Aam" and Hamool city were established and trained 34145 students and fresh graduates as well as working staff of the governorate's administrative body.