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Hurghada
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Hurghada
City
is the capital of Red Sea Governorate, it is one of the most important
scuba-diving tourist destinations around the world.
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Geography
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It is
located on the western coast of the Red Sea, 500km south-east of Cairo,
and stretches for about 36 kilometres (22 mi) along the seashore, and it
does not reach far into the surrounding desert. Hurghada is bordered by
Ras Gareb in the north, Safaga in the south,
Red Sea coast in the east and Sohag
and Assyut Governorates in the west.
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History
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It was
initially developed in 1909 by British engineers engaged in oil
exploration. By the 1920s a primitive . small village was established,
but development
soon started to promote the town as a
scuba-diving tourist destination .
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Economy
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Since the
1980s Hurghada has grown from a small fishing village to an
internationally renowned resort town on the Red Sea Governorate .
It became an international center for aquatic sports like windsurfing,
sailing, deep-sea fishing, swimming, and above all snorkeling and
diving. The unique underwater gardens offshore are some of the finest in
the world, justifiably famous amongst divers. Hurghada’s warm waters are
ideal for many varieties of rare fish and coral reefs, which may also be
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Hurghada is merging the
old with the new, and boasts some of the finest
hotel chains in
Villages Road and the tourist districts
around it like Sahel Hasheesh , or north of it and El-Gouna in the
south. he city is served by
the
Hurghada International Airport
that has direct connections with several cities in
Europe
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Population |
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Hurghada is
inhabited by 860791 people (according to 2006 census), the majority of
the inhabitants depend on tourism, and some of them work in fishing.
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