Mansura:
The important commercial and industrial city of El-Mansura (Mansoura), chief town of the Governorate of Daqahliya and the seat of a university associated with the University of Cairo and of a college of technology, lies in the eastern half of the Nile Delta on the right bank of the Damietta arm (in classical times known as the Phatnitic arm) of the Nile, from which the Bahr el-Sughayyar branches off here to flow into Lake Manzala. It is located 55 km (34 miles) north of Zagazig.
The city has an entirely European aspect, with modern buildings in Western style in addition to many mosques of little architectural interest. It is a market and processing center for the agricultural produce of the Delta, with several large cotton factories, and also has metalworking industries.
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