Toukh

Toukh is a city in the Qalyubia Governorate of Egypt, lying on the Cairo to Alexandria agricultural road in the Nile Delta. Its name comes from a Coptic word meaning chapel. Toukh is also the seat of a county made up of many small towns, among them Tant al Gazirah and Berhoum, and the county is semi-rural, with primary schools and a mixed secondary school serving its villages. The settlement is old: it is recorded as Tukh al-Majwal in a survey ordered by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1176, as Tugh Mujul among the villages of Qalyubiya in the Ottoman survey of 1527, and as Tokh Malak in the register made after the survey of Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1813. Local farming is of high quality and produces oranges, lettuce, spinach, molokhia, tomatoes and mangoes, and the city has a railway station and a hospital. The official estimate for July 2023 is 54,096 residents.