El Bagour is a town in the Nile Delta of northern Egypt, in the eastern part of the Monufia Governorate. It lies about 13 kilometres from Benha to the east, 15 from Menouf to the west, 12 from Shibin El Kom to the north and 20 from Ashmoun to the south, and has 48 surrounding villages. By 1783 it was known as Badjur and belonged to the Wilayat Menoufia under the Ottoman Empire. In the 1880s Ali Pasha Mubarak described it as a village with five mosques with shrines, orchards and waterways, known for making licorice. The 2006 census counted 304,420 people for the main city and its surrounding villages. The theologian Ibrahim al-Bajuri was born there, and its climate is hot desert.
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1. El Bagour (Wikipedia)
Climate
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh)
Part Of: Egypt, Lead, country
is a town in northern Egypt
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is a town in northern Egypt
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Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
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Egypt (Wikipedia)
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Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa
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