Port Fuad

Port Fuad, also written Port Fouad, is a city in Port Said Governorate, Egypt, in northeastern Egypt at the northwesternmost tip of the Sinai Peninsula, on the Asian side of the Suez Canal across from the city of Port Said. It is considered a suburb of Port Said, and together they form a metropolitan area of over one million residents. Port Fuad was established in 1926, principally to relieve overcrowding in Port Said, and was named after King Fuad I, the first holder of the title King of Egypt in the modern era, who had previously held the title Sultan of Egypt. It had a population of 81,591 as of 2015.