Tanta
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Tanta (Arabic: طنطا ) is a city of Egypt, capital of the Al Gharbiyah governorate on the Nile Delta, and at an estimated 335,000 inhabitants, considered the capital of the Delta. It is located 94 km (59 miles) north of Cairo and 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Alexandria. It is a cotton-ginning center and the main railroad hub of the delta (a flat land usually the mouth of a river though not neccerly a triangular shape places). Three annual festivals are held in Tanta in honor of Ahmad al-Badawi, a revered Sufi figure of the 13th century, who founded the Badawiyyah tariqah and is buried in the main mosque of the city. Tanta is very famous of special sweets for the same exact festival, Geometry and plan of the city is a bit messed, however it's near to be urban city than lower one, there is many features of big cities not like a meuseum, a zoo, social club, sports club [Tanta 1st National Football Team], there is a university in Tanta which became one of residental universites for free governmental establishments which is ranked as one of developing university (needs much more enhancements for ISO and quality), Tanta University's Official Website: http://www.tanta.edu.eg/en/ , University as name is not applied totally on Tanta University as colleges are situated at diffrent places (They're planning to assemble colleges in 2 diffrent places except college of commerce as it needs a very wide area for lager sums of students in it) and each place would be sepearated from main University Administration situated at Al-Bahr "Sea" (or El- Geish "Army") Street [Main street in Tanta]. Tanta is considered of closed cities where it doesn't situate on The Nile River and it's not having any ports except one of central railway hubs in Egypt.
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