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Beheira Govrenorate
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Beheira Governorate on the map o Egyp
Beheira Governorate on the map o Egyp
Kintra Egyp
SeatDamanhur (caipital)
Govrenment
 • GovrenorDr Mohamed Sultan [1]
Area
 • Total10,130 km2 (3,910 sq mi)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total5,647,233
 • Density560/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)

Beheira Govrenorate (Arabic: ‏محافظة البحيرةMuḥāfaẓat al Buḥaira) is a coastal governorate in Egyp. Locatit in the north o the kintra in the Nile Delta, its caipital is Damanhur.

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Beheira govrenorate enjoys an important strategical place, wast o the Rosetta branch o the Nile. It comprises fower important heich-gates, namely the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, the Cairo agricultural road, the internaitional road an the circular road. Beheira govrenorate is an aa home tae a number o the maist important Coptic monasteries in Wadi El Natrun (Scetes).

Beheira consists o 13 centres an 14 ceeties, an contains important industries such as cotton, chemicals, carpets, electricity an fishin.

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  1. "Mansour appoints 20 new governors". Daily News Egypt. Retrieved 15 August 2013.