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Map of the Fayum area. The Fayum region covers an area of around 12,000 km 2 and is located around 70 km southwest of Cairo west of the Nile in the middle of the Libyan Desert. The center is formed by the Fayum Basin, a depression area of about 1500 km 2. It has a triangular shape with the tip pointing south.
Egypt The Jebel Qatrani Formation (also Gebel Qatrani , Gabal Qatrani or Djebel Qatrani ) is a geologic formation located in the Faiyum Governorate of central Egypt . It is exposed between the Jebel Qatrani escarpment and the Qasr el Sagha escarpment , north of Birket Qarun lake near Faiyum .
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The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Wāḥat al-Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km 2 (490 mi 2 ) and 1,700 km 2 (656 mi 2 ).
Faiyum Governorate: Country: Egypt: The Gehannam Formation (or Gar Gehannam) is a formation in Egypt which dates to the Eocene. [1] ... Code of Conduct;
Faiyum (/ f aɪ ˈ j uː m / fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized: el-Fayyūm, locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) [a] is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location. [2]
Fayoum, Petrified wood protectorate in New-Cairo Area/ Cairo-Suez desert road & entire Western Desert of Egypt is covered in Petrified wood. This is one of the clues that the region was a tropical climate. The petrified wood is very diverse and many samples are very beautiful, often actually littering the ground in certain areas.
Date: 27 April 2008: Source: This file was derived from: Ancient Egypt map.svg by Jeff Dahl The location of Faiyum Oasis was referenced from the book: Shaw, Ian , ed. (2003) Dějiny starověkého Egypta ISBN: 80-7257-975-4.