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The governorate is endowed with diversified highlights including

entertainment tourism in Balteem summer resort, el-Borolos

Lake, and Desook Park, in addition to religious highlights

including Mosques of Seedy Talha Abi Said el-Telmesany, Seedy

Ibrahim el-Desooky, as well as the Virgin Mary Church.

Moreover, it includes historical places and monuments in Sakha

Hills, Faraeen Hills, Koom el-Khobyz, in addition to the House of

Saâd Zaghloul leader.

The governorate hosts natural protectorates by virtue of the Prime

Minister's decree No.1444/1998 stipulating that el-Borulus Lake

is a natural protectorate, an area located on the north east of

Rosetta Branch and is bordered in the north by the international

coastal road extending from Rafah till Saloum.

Location:

Kafr el-Sheikh lies in the far North of the Republic. It is bordered

in the North by the Mediterranean Sea, in the West by Rosetta

branch that stretch by 85 km till its mouth in the Mediterranean

Sea, in the East, by Dakahlia, and in the South by Gharbia.

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