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Kafr El Sheikh is the capital of Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, about 134 km north of Cairo, in the Nile Delta of lower Egypt. As of November 2006, the town had a population of 147,380 inhabitants.Kafr El Sheikh was earlier known as Denqiun, and has been settled for thousands of years. In 2006 the University of Kafr El Sheikh was established.GeographyKafr El Sheikh is located in the southern side of the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, it is famous for agriculture, escpecially the production of rice. The city is surrounded to the east by the villages of Qantara and Sawalha which are separated by a small Canal.PopulationThe population of the city, according to a census from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, is 147,393. Kafr El Sheikh, is the fourth largest city in the Nile Delta.FactoriesKafr El Sheikh is the home to various factories, including a rice mill, a poultry forage factory and a sugar beet factory.ClimateKafr el-Sheikh is classified by Köppen-Geiger climate classification system as hot desert (BWh).Notable peopleMohamed Atta, terrorist hijacker and operational leader of the Hamburg cell responsible for the September 11 attacksHossam Ghaly, Egyptian soccer playerMahmoud Hassan "Trezeguet", Egyptian footballerOsama Anwar Okasha, Egyptian screenwriter and journalistHamdeen Sabahi, the leader of the Dignity Party and one of the leaders of the Egyptian opposition before the 2011 Egyptian revolutionSaad Zaghloul, Egyptian politicianAhmed Zewail, Egyptian-American scientist