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TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES: — EGYPT
and settled area, that is, the Nile Valley and Delta, covers only 12,013 square miles. Canals, roads, date plantations, &c., cover 1,900 square miles ; 2,850 square miles are comprised in the surface of the Nile, marshes, lakes, and desert. l*-gypt is divided into two great districts — ' Masr-el-Bahri,' or Lower Egypt, and 'El-Said,' or Upper Egypt.
The following table gives the area of the settled land surface, and the results of the census of 1907 : —
A.dniinistrative
Area in
Egypt
lans
Foreigners 103,600
Total
Popu-
Division
sq. miles
Sedentary
Nomad . 4,548
lation per sq. mile
aj /'Cairo .
43
540,328
654,476
15,220
^ Alexandria
19
245,136
714
86,396
332,246
17,487
g Port Said .
n
36,364
71
13,449
49,884
33,266
2-, Ismailia
H
8,296
307
2,849
11,448
7,632
33 Sxiez .
3
14,152
488
3,707
18,347
6,116
% Sinai .
—
667
414
429
1,510
O V.E1-Arish .
—
5,747
—
190
5,897
Provinces :
■S, ^Behera
1,725
665,198
119,404
13,871
798,473
463
^ Sharqia H Daqahlial .
1,314
781,233
89,026
9,387
879,646
669
1,017
892,912
12,847
6,669
012,428
897
- - "i Gharbia
2,634
1,441,462
30,689
12,663
1,484,814
586
1 Qaliubia .
357
399,926
32,491
2,198
434,575
1,217
o IMenufla Provinces :
(307
951,243
15,283
4,099
970,581
1,599
'Beni-Suef .
410
338,714
31,338
2,360
372,412
908
A
Fayiun
(569
378,770
60,753
2,060
441,583
COO
SO
Gizeh ,
398
425,406
31,977
2,697
460,080
1,156
H.
Minia .
752
624,100
32,950
2,917
659,967
S78
<D
Assiut .
768
877,128
28,630
2,977
903,3.85
1,176
s
tJ
Girga .
675
783,992
7,575
1,404
792,971
1,379
Kena .
650
750,346
16,168
9,978
772,492
1,188
, Aswan
109
198,925
26,958
6,930
232,813
1,378
Totals . .
12,013
10,316,045
537,631
286,302
11,189,978
931
Estimated Bedau " population^
97,381
~
_
—
1 Including Damietta. ^ Excluding Sinai and El-Arish. ^ The Nomads scattered over desert areas were estimated only and not directly enumerated.
Of the total population, 5,667,074 were males and 5,620,285 females. A population consisting of 3,884 persons was enumerated in the Oasis of Siwa
The foreign pofjulation, 151,414 in all, comprised 62,973 Greeks, 34,926 Italians, 20,653 British, 14,591 French, 7,704 Austro- Hungarians, 2,410 Russians, 1,847 Germans, 1,385 Persians, and 4,925 of other nationalities.
The growth of the general population of the country is exhibited by the following figures : —
1800 (French estimate) . . 2,460,200 ' 1882 (Census^ 1821 (Mehemet Aly). . .2,536,400 1897 (Census) 1846 (Census) 4,476,440 1907 (Census)
6,831,131
9,734,405
11,287,359
The average annual increase from 1846 to 1882 was 1*25 per cent. ; from 1882 to 1897, 2-76 per cent. ; 1897-1907, 1-5 per cent.
The distribution of the population according to occupation in 1907, was as follows : —
