New Nubia Attractions El-Nuba el Gedida

On the east side of the valley many of the Egyptian Nubians displaced by the construction of the Aswan High Dam (some 50,000 in all) have been resettled and provided with land. This area, now known as New Nubia, has been divided up into 40 rural districts or village territories with the same names as the 40 village units of "old" Nubia. The new villages are laid out on a regular plan and have all the necessary social services and cultural facilities. There have, however, been difficulties arising from the breaking up of established social structures and the sudden transfer of an exclusively rural population to a partly industrialized setting. It is planned to return part of the transferred population to the shores of Lake Nasser.