New Borg El Arab

New Borg El Arab is a city in the Alexandria Governorate of Egypt, a new city of the first generation administered by the New Urban Communities Authority. It was established by presidential decree in December 1979 under the name New Amria City and took its present name in 1989. It covers about 191 square kilometres, roughly 55 kilometres from Alexandria and 8 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast, and was created to reduce congestion in Alexandria as a natural extension of it. The city is divided into thirteen residential neighbourhoods with schools, hospitals, banks, sports clubs and an area for universities, plus a technological zone and ten industrial zones. It stands on land 28 metres above sea level, which makes the climate dry rather than humid, and its population in 2022 was about 170,000.