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location

The governorate is located on an area of 2959. 6 km² .It has a population of one and a half million people. It is divided Luxor Governorate into 9 Cities:

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 Luxor, Al Bayadiya, Al Qurna, Armant, Tod, Esna, New Luxor, New Tibah, and Al Zainia. It is bordered to the north by Qena Governorate 56 km, to the south by Aswan Governorate by 220 km, to the east by the Red Sea Governorate 280 km and to the west by the New Valley Governorate 337, and it is about 670 km from the Egyptian capital Cairo.

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Luxor divided into two parts, the eastern part, and the western part.

On the eastern bank of the Nile was the actual city with palaces and temples of veneration. On the western side of the Nile lies the area of the dead, here were the tombs of the secret cemetery of kings in the distant Valley of the Kings, the nobles, workers, princes, and the Valley of the Queens, along the banks, the kings built their memorial temple.

The climate

Luxor has a dry desert climate with little rain, but sometimes torrential rain falls on the hills and mountains in the Eastern Desert.

Winter is characterized by being warm and sunny weather from October to May and very hot summer from May to October, and temperatures in summer range

from 33 to 45 degrees Celsius and in winter from 15.5 to 8.5 degrees Celsius.

Economy

Tourism

Luxor relies on tourism, mainly as a source of income, where 90% of its population works in tourism, especially in the hotel sector, Nile cruises, sailing boats, horse carriages, restaurants, tourism companies, tour guides, taxi drivers and other jobs related to tourism.

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 Luxor has nearly a third of the world's antiquities, about 14 of the most important Egyptian temples and about 600 tombs such as Luxor Temple, Karnak Temple, Luxor Museum, Mummification Museum, Valley of the Kings, Deir el-Bahari Temple, Valley of the Queens, Deir El-Madina, and Ramesseum Temple, a statue of Memnon.

Therefore, it is considered one of the most important cultural tourist destinations in the world that tourists from all over the world visit.

Agricultural

The agricultural area in Luxor is limited  ranging on the Nile valley, from the Al-Dababiya limestone plateau in the east to the limestone plateau in the Valley of the Kings on the west about 30 to 40 km,from Al-Sharawneh borders in the south to Al-Ashy borders in the north about 87 km length.The agricultural production in Luxor is diverse, especially in the desert area.Luxor produces many types of vegetables and fruits such as wheat, corn, beans, lentils, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, lettuce, potatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, parsley, coriander, mallow, okra, zucchini, mangoes, grapes, dates, guavas, melons, melons, and sugar cane, orange.

Industry

There is one sugar factory in Luxor, but it has many environmental and manual industries, the most important of which are spinning, carpets, papyrus, ceramics, alabaster, pottery, wood furniture, palm products, dairy products and honey. A new industrial city was established east of Luxor.

Important days

Province of Luxor is celebrated on 4 November each year with the National Day, on this day in 1922, Lord Carter discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb.

Every year there is a popular celebration where the birth of Sidi Abu Al-Hajjaj is celebrated 14 days before the month of Ramadan. Abu Al-Hajjaj is one of the righteous saints of God, known for his religiosity and has a high respect in Luxor.

This ceremony is similar to the ancient rituals of the Obit Festival, which is celebrated at the beginning of the flood season every year, with a golden statue of Amun from Karnak on the sacred boat and his golden cabin covered with a white curtain, accompanied by the audience, priests, musicians, dancers, incense-bearers, the king, his family and nobles.

In the celebration of the birth of Sidi Abu Al-Hajjaj, there was a sailing boat representing the boat that took him to Luxor, carried by a cart, a caravan of camels with brightly colored howdahs which means "bed carried by a camel", riders of Arabian horses.

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Also, the local people in their traditional dress (jalabiya), dancing a folk dance, stick-dancing game with a wooden stick, it's called in Arabic (TAHTIEB).

The rules of this game as a mock fight between two people, that is duel with a wooden thick stick, the winner is considered who can with his stick touch the opponent's head with a light touch or the body of the opponent three light touches. So it is a game that depends on camouflage, deception, speed of movement and speed of reaction to protect the head or body.

The ancient Egyptians recorded this sport on the walls of their temples, and they were interested in teaching it to the soldiers.

Do not forget to eat the kebab Abu hagag in these days, which is a small boiled kebab the size of a table tennis ball. It consists of wheat, spices, onions, meat, garlic and chopped coriander.