Asyut Governorate is one of the governorates of Egypt. The capital city is also named Asyut.
It stretches across a section of the Nile River.
Asyut Governorate
Locations
There are eleven cities in the Asyūṭ Governorate, which are also administrative centers of the districts of the same name:
- Asyut (Arab. أسيوط, Asyūṭ).
- Dairut (Arab. ديروط, Dairūṭ).
- al-Qusiyya (Arab. القوصية, al-Qūṣīya)
- Manfalut (Arab. منفلوط, Manfalūṭ).
- Abu Tig (also Abutig, Arab. ابو تيج, Abū Tīǧ).
- Sidfa (also Sedfa, Arab. صدفا, Ṣidfā)
- el-Ghanayim (Arab. الغنايم, al-Ghanāyīm)
- Abnob (Arab. أبنوب, Abnūb).
- al-Fatih (also el-Fatih, Arab. الفتح, al-Fatiḥ)
- Sahil Salim (also Sahil Saleem, Arab. ساحل سليم, Sāḥil Salīm).
- al-Badari (Arab. البداري, al-Badārī)
Governorates in Egypt
Alexandria | Aswan | Asyut | al-Bahr al-ahmar | Bani Suwaif | al-Buhaira | Bur Saʿid | ad-Daqahliyya | Dumyat | al-Fayyum | al-Gharbiyya | Giza | al-Ismaʿiliyya | Kafr asch-Shaykh | Cairo | Luxor | Matruh | al-Minufiyya | al-Minya | North Sinai | al-Qalyubiyya | Qina | Sauhaj | ash-Sharqiyya | as-Suwais | South Sinai | al-Wadi al-Jadid
former: Helwan | as-Sadis min Uktubar
Standard data (geographic): GND: 7525037-8