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The contemporary development of the urban settlement system in Egypt took place under an extraordinary combination of rapid population growth and minimal expansion in its inhabited area. Population density in the Nile Delta (Figure 1) is 1230 persons per square mile which is one of the highest in the world. As a result of extreme crowding in the rural areas, major rural to urban migration flows and rapid urbanization occurred (Table 1). The growth in both rural and urban population, however, continued to be primarily confined to the Nile Valley and its Delta, which constitute a fraction (perhaps 4 or 5 per cent) of the country’s total area.
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El-Shakhs, S. (1989). The Role of Employment in the Growth of Small and Intermediate-Sized Cities in Egypt. In: May, R. (eds) The Urbanization Revolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1616-0_11
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