Egypt villages & urban neighbourhoods shapefile - 1996 census

This geographical dataset consists of a series of four shapefiles. The main one, EGY_SEC, provides the delineation for the villages (Yahya), cities (Madina), and neighbourhoods (Shiyakha) of Egypt's larger towns. This shapefile comprises 5410 geocoded geographical units linked with the 1996 census data.

The EGY_SEC geographical layer of Egypt's smallest administrative units has been sourced from various paper map series (notably Egyptian administrative military maps and the 1/25.000 series). The layer is georeferenced using Egypt's datum (Egypt 1907 / Blue Belt).

The previous work of Sylvie Fanchette1 on the Nile Delta population mapping has been instrumental in the making of this geodataset.

It was created in the frame of the programme EGIPTE “Explorations Géographiques Informatisées de la Population et du Territoire de l’Égypte » funded by CNRS from 2004 to 2006 (PIR-Ville). It was coordinated by François Moriconi and Eric Denis with the support of Hala Bayoumi and Ahmed Wagih, and hosted during the 1990s’ by the CEDEJ in Cairo.

An updated version of this map is used and can be viewed on the join website: https://www.cedejcapmas.org

The other 3 shapefiles are:

NILE for the Nile River layer

EGYPT for the governorate/muhafaza level layer

EGYPT_GOV for the district-level layer

The dataset is notably in the special issue of the Journal Geocarrefour (Revue de Géographie de Lyon), vol. 73, n°3, 1998 titled Géographie sociale de l'Egypte.

See also: 

Denis, E. (1998). Croissance urbaine et dynamique socio-spatiale Le Caire de 1950 à 1990. L'espace géographique, 129-142.

Denis, É., & Moriconi-Ébrard, F. (1998). La population de l'Egypte 1897-1996. L'information Géographique, 62(1), 12-23.

1.      S. Fanchette. 1997. Le delta du Nil. Densités de population et urbanisation des campagnes. Fascicule de Recherches n°32. Urbama-Orstom. Tours. 389 p.