Tanta Attractions

 
Tanta, the lively capital of the Governorate of Gharbiya, within the Rosetta and Damietta arms of the Nile, lies between Cairo and Alexandria in the heart of the Nile Delta. The principal commercial center of the Delta (particularly for cotton), it is also one of the most important traffic junctions in Egypt.

Tanta has cotton ginning factories and textile industries, and is also a university town, with an institute attached to the El-Azhar University in Cairo and a medical school associated with Alexandria University, as well as the seat of a Metropolitan of the Coptic Church.

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