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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 : —