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City in Gharbia, Egypt

El Mahalla El Kubra

El Mahalla El Kubra – commonly shortened to El Maḥalla – is the largest city of the Gharbia Governorate and in the Nile Delta, with a population of 550,000 as of 2024.

El Mahalla El Kubra
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The place

El Mahalla El Kubra – commonly shortened to El Maḥalla – is the largest city of the Gharbia Governorate and in the Nile Delta, with a population of 550,000 as of 2024. It is a large industrial and agricultural city in Egypt, located in the middle of the Nile Delta on the western bank of the Damietta Branch tributary. The city is known for its textile industry, and hosts the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company which employs around 27,000 people.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around El Mahalla El Kubra

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Ghazl El Mahalla Stadium

    Ghazl El Mahalla Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt. It is used mainly for football and serves as the home stadium of Ghazl El Mahalla, but it also hosts Baladeyet El Mahalla and Said El Mahalla home matches.

    1.3 km · multi-purpose stadium located in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Egypt · Wikipedia

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Getting to El Mahalla El Kubra

Airports
Cairo (CAI), 98 km · Sphinx (SPX), 99 km · Port Said (PSD), 108 km
  • Cairo → El Mahalla El Kubra
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · E£165–225
  • Al Jiza → El Mahalla El Kubra
    518 km · quickest by road, 12h 41m · $60–85
  • Port Said → El Mahalla El Kubra
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · E£190–255
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for El Mahalla El Kubra. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    419 km
  2. 02
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    425 km
  3. 03
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    437 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    594 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    856 km

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