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Location:

Qaliubiya is situated in the East Nile Region at the head of the

Delta. It is bordered in the South by Cairo and Giza governorates,

in the North by Dakahleyia, and Gharbia, in the East by Sharkqia,
and in the West by Menofia.

The Governorate's national day:

30th August commemorating the inauguration of el-Kanater el-

Khayria in 1868.

Emblem:

The cogwheel refers to the industry in the governorate, where the

biggest industrial zone by far in the Republic exists. The two trees
- branches refer to the agricultural land. The emblem displays the

Barrages in the middle that control the Nile water level.

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