Madīnat Khāmastāshar Māyo

Egypt
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Madīnat Khāmastāshar Māyo, residential town, Ḥulwān muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt. The town is a suburb of the industrial town of Ḥulwān and is located in the Wadi Ḥawf 2 miles (3 km) north of Ḥulwān, on a desert tract of 15 square miles (39 square km). Constructed in the late 1970s, it is part of the Egyptian government’s program to shift population away from Cairo and the cultivable parts of the Nile River valley. Construction began in the 1980s on a regional water-recycling project centred at Ḥulwān, the water of which would be used to cultivate vegetables. In the spring of ...(100 of 128 words)