Lower Egypt

Lower Egypt (Arabic: دلتا مصر‎ delta màSr) is an extensive region of Egypt containing the Nile Delta, Cairo, Alexandria, and the pyramid fields near Cairo. In ancient times, Lower Egypt was known as Ta-mehu which means Land of Papyrus.

Cities

• 🌍 Cairo — firmly attached to the past and home to a vibrant modern society
• 🌍 Alexandria — a faded shade of its former glorious cosmopolitan self, but still worth a visit
• 🌍 Damanhur
• 🌍 Dumyat
• 🌍 Fayum — the forgotten gem of Egypt
• 🌍 Mansoura
• 🌍 Port Said
• 🌍 Tanta
• 🌍 Zagazig

Other destinations

• 🌍 Abusir — seven pyramids in a compact necropolis, which is one of the most isolated in the country
• 🌍 Dahshur — earliest pyramids in wide open desert
• 🌍 El Alamein
• 🌍 Marsa Matruh
• 🌍 Memphis
• 🌍 Saqqara — an extensive number of pyramids and tombs on a plateau above the Nile Valley
• 🌍 Tell Basta — archaeological site
• 🌍 Whale Valley (Wadi El Hitan) — a UNESCO World Heritage Site with its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti (a now extinct sub-order of whales)

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Go next

• Middle Egypt — the area along the Nile where the historical Upper and Lower kingdoms met
• Western Desert — location of the Western Oases: five pockets of green, each with their own unique attractions
• Red Sea Coast — luxury beach resorts, diving and marine life
• Sinai — rugged and isolated peninsula, with fascinating relics of the past, high mountains and great scuba diving