Egypt villages & urban neighbourhoods shapefile - 1996 census

<p>This geographical dataset consists of a series of four shapefiles. The main one, EGY_SEC, provides the delineation for the villages (Yahya), cities (Madina), and neighbourhoods (Shiyakha) of Egypt's larger towns. This shapefile comprises 5410 geocoded&nbsp;geographical units linked with the 1996 census data.</p> <p>The EGY_SEC geographical layer of Egypt's smallest administrative units has been sourced from various paper map series (notably Egyptian administrative military maps and the 1/25.000 series). The layer is georeferenced using Egypt's datum (Egypt 1907 / Blue Belt).</p> <p>The previous work of Sylvie Fanchette¹ on the Nile Delta population mapping has been instrumental in the making of this geodataset.</p> <p>It was created in the frame of the programme EGIPTE &ldquo;Explorations G&eacute;ographiques Informatis&eacute;es de la Population et du Territoire de l&rsquo;&Eacute;gypte &raquo; funded by CNRS from 2004 to 2006 (PIR-Ville). It was coordinated by Fran&ccedil;ois Moriconi and Eric Denis with the support of Hala Bayoumi and Ahmed Wagih, and hosted during the 1990s&rsquo; by the CEDEJ in Cairo.</p> <p>An updated version of this map is used and can be viewed on the join website: <a href="https://www.cedejcapmas.org">https://www.cedejcapmas.org</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The other 3 shapefiles are:</p> <p>NILE for the Nile River layer</p> <p>EGYPT for the governorate/muhafaza level layer</p> <p>EGYPT_GOV for the district-level layer</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The dataset is notably in the special issue of the Journal <em>Geocarrefour (Revue de G&eacute;ographie de Lyon),</em> vol. 73, n&deg;3, 1998 titled G&eacute;ographie sociale de l'Egypte.</p> <p>See also:&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44381341">Denis, E. (1998). Croissance urbaine et dynamique socio-spatiale Le Caire de 1950 &agrave; 1990. <em>L'espace g&eacute;ographique</em>, 129-142.</a></p> <p>Denis, &Eacute;., &amp; Moriconi-&Eacute;brard, F. (1998). La population de l'Egypte 1897-1996. <em>L'information G&eacute;ographique</em>, <em>62</em>(1), 12-23.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; S. Fanchette. 1997. <em>Le delta du Nil. Densit&eacute;s de population et urbanisation des campagnes</em>. Fascicule de Recherches n&deg;32. Urbama-Orstom. Tours. 389 p.</p>