Kafr El-Sheikh is the capital city of Kafr El-Sheikh governorate and is located in the middle of the Nile Delta. It is 22 kilometers north of Cairo (the capital of Egypt) and 90 km east-south-east of Alexandria. In the distant past it was known as the village of Dangun.  It was then named Kafr El-Sheikh Talha after a sheikh who had lived there about one thousand years ago. King Fuad I ordered workers to build a castle for him in Kafr El-Sheikh and the village was then known as Al-Fuadiya, in honour of his name. At the beginning of the Republic in 1952, the Revolutionary Command Council returned the village to its old name. Kafr El-Sheikh city now occupies the fourth rank in the list of Nile Delta cities after Mahala, Tanta and Mansoura.