New Valley Governorate
Al- New Valley (Arabic محافظة الوادي الجديد Muhafazat al - New Valley, DMG Muhafazat al - Wadi al- ǧadīd, Egyptian Arabic: el- Wādī el- Gedid, German " New Valley ") is a province in Egypt with 187 256 inhabitants and is located in the southern part of the Libyan Desert. With 376,505 km ², the province is by far the largest governorate of Egypt. The province was founded in 1958 under then- President Gamal Abdel Nasser, previously it was until 1958 part of the Verwaltungsgebites al - Zahra 'al- Janubiyah ( German " southern desert "). 1968 Valley Bahariyya was the government of al - Giza slammed. The administrative center since 1958 al - Kharga.
Geography
Al- New Valley is bordered on the north by the provinces Matruh, Al- Giza and al - Minya, Asyut Governorate to the east, Sauhadsch, Qena, al - Uqsur and Aswan, in the south of Sudan and Libya to the west. The landscape is dominated by the Libyan desert, with smaller hills and mountains and through three major sinks:
- Farafra
- Dakhla
- Kharga
In the south of the international border is formed on Sudan by the 22th degree of latitude. In the west, the boundary is marked by Libya to the 25th degree of longitude. The internal border with the provinces of Matruh, Al- Giza and Al- Minya in the north runs along the latitude 27 ° 54 '.
Population
In al - New Valley 187 256 people live in the province, making it the least populated of Egypt. Are inhabited almost exclusively the oases in the valleys.
Economy
Economically the province is dominated by agriculture and mining, most important economic sector is the phosphate mining, for example, in the phosphate mines of Abu Tartur 50 km west of al - Kharga. In the cultivated soils of oases, especially dates, citrus fruits, olives, rice and cereals are grown. Infrastructural the populated areas by a 1,500 kms long, completed in 1980 Ringstrasse, the Luxor starting five Egyptian lowering links (Luxor - Kharga - Dakhla - Farafra - Bahariyya ( Gouvernement al - Giza ) - Madinat al - Fayyum ( Gouvernement al - Fayyum ) - Cairo ) and ends in Cairo. Of economic importance are currently ongoing major projects for agricultural development in the New Valley Project and the Toshka project.