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excluding the Sudan, is about 350,000 square miles ; but the cultivated and settled area, that is, the Nile Valley and Delta, covers only ] . 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, and lakes. Egypt 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 taken in Mar h, 1917 : —
Administrative
Area in
Total
Population
Division
sq. miles
Population 790,939
per sq. mile
x /'Cairo .
•;•_'
$ 1 Alexandria
19
444,617
23.401
£ 1 Daniietta
11
s ■! (Port Said
3 1 Canal < and
o 1 Usraailia
ij+ii
91,090
30,363
O I^Suez .
3
30,996
10,332
Frontier District- .
?
70.351
Provinces :
i. ^Beheira
i.ra
892,246
i£ 1 Daqahliyu .
1,006
986,643
981
H | Gharbiya .
•313
r \ Menufiya .
5 1 Qalyubiya
3 Uharqiya . .
606
1,072,636
1,770
na
52-
1,322
.497
Provinces :
-
r ASTt'lt .
981,197
g
Aswan
IM
253,340
1,508
ff.
Beiii-teuei . Faiyilm
Mb
45'J. ' 507,017
1.107
a
Girga .
57<"i
S63.234
1,499
£
Giza .
Ml
- .352
1,317
-
Miuya .
651
763, '.'22
1,173
.Qona .
7-". 1
>40.317
1,114
Total .
12.U23
12,750,918
1,061
The growth of the general population of the country is exhibited by the following figures : —
1800 (French estimate) . .2,460,200 1897 (Census) . . . . 9,734,405 1821 (Muhammad Ali) . . 2,536,400 1907 (Census) . . . . 11,287,359
1846 (Census) 4,476,440 1917 (Census) . . . . 12,750,918
1882 (Census, 6,831,131 I
The average annual increase from 1S46 to 1882 was 125 per cent. ; from 1882 to 1897, 2-76 per cent. ; 1897-1907, 149 per cent. ; from 1846-1907, 1 53 per cent.
For details of the census of 1907, sec The Statesman's Year-Book for 1915, pp. 250-1.
Estimated population, Julv 1, 1919 : 12,878,000. Births registered, 1919, 493,507 ; deaths, 383,872,
The principal towns, with their populations, according to the results of the census of 1917, are :— Cairo, 790,939 ; Alexandria, 444,617 Port Said (including Ismailia), 91,090 ; Suez, 30,996 : Damietta, 30.9S4 Tanta, 74,195; Mansura, 49,238; Zagazig, 41,741; Damanhur, 47.S67 Benha, 18,607; Shibin el-Kom, 24,604 : Asyt'it, 51,431 ; Aswan, 11,203 Beni Suet, 31,986 ; Faiyiim, 44,400; Sohag, 20,760; Giza, 18,714; Qena 23,357 ; Minya, 34,945.
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