New Thebes is a third-generation new city in Luxor Governorate, established in 2000 about 14 kilometres northeast of the city of Luxor and 10 kilometres from Luxor International Airport. The city has a total area of 9,594 acres, with about 8,557 acres currently urbanised, and a detailed plan for a further 6,050 acres was approved by a ministerial decree in April 2020. Its services include a drinking water treatment plant of 35,000 cubic metres a day, a wastewater plant being upgraded for irrigation reuse, a 138 kilometre road network, a 50 MVA transformer station and an industrial zone of 382 acres. It is a university city: Luxor University has its campus here with faculties including science, medicine, education and archaeology, and Misr University of Science and Technology has acquired land for an Upper Egypt branch.
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. New Thebes (Wikipedia)
2. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Egypt
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Environment.Climate.textQuote, Environment.Climate.text
desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
3. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, africa zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Africa/CairoQuote, Zone Africa/Cairo
Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
2:00 Egypt EE%sT
Egypt (Wikipedia)
On Continent: Africa, Lead, Egypt articleQuote, On Continent: Africa, Lead, Egypt article
is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia
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