Qaha

Qaha is a city in northeastern Egypt, about 25 kilometres north of Cairo, in the rich farmland of the southern Nile Delta where canals leading off the Delta Barrage irrigate the fields. The village is old: its name at the time of the Islamic conquest of Egypt is given as Kahani, and later administrative registers of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods list it as Qaha within the villages of the Qalyubia region. Today it is known for a preserved foods industry and as an industrial and agricultural town on the rail network that radiates north from Cairo, and the farmland east of the city is known for its citrus orchards. Its climate is classified as hot desert under the Koppen-Geiger system, like the rest of Egypt.