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Banī Suwayf
governorate, Egypt
Banī Suwayf, muḥāfaẓah (governorate), lying along the Nile River in northern Upper Egypt, with an extension into the Libyan (Western) Desert at its southern end. Al-Fayyūm governorate lies to the west and north and Al-Minyā to the south. Its cultivated, settled area consists mainly of a strip of the Nile River valley floodplain, extending about 50 miles (80 km) north-south and 15 miles in width at its widest point, near Banī Suwayf city. Because the river throughout history has eroded away the eastern bank, it now embraces only a narrow gravelly plain terminating abruptly below the bluffs of the Eastern ...(100 of 239 words)