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Al-Iskandariyyah, muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Lower Egypt. The muḥāfaẓah is densely settled in the north in and around its capital, Alexandria (Al-Iskandariyyah); it includes a desert hinterland extending south more than 50 miles (80 km) into the Western Desert. Alexandria, in the northeastern panhandle of the muḥāfaẓah, is built on a strip between the Mediterranean and Buḥayrat Maryūṭ (the classical Lake Mareotis) and juts northward into the Mediterranean on an artificial T-shaped promontory, accommodating two harbours. Ongoing land reclamation has brought about 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) into agricultural production. There are natural gas wells at Abū Qīr, on a natural promontory just ...(100 of 171 words)

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