Zagazig (Zakazlk, Arabic, Az-Zaqāzīq), is a town of Lower Egypt, and is the capital of the province of Ash Sharqiyah.
As of 1999, its population was approximately 279,000. It is built on a branch of the Fresh Water or Ismailia canal, and on the Al-Mo'izz canal (the ancient Tanitic channel of the Nile river), and is 47 miles by rail North-Northeast of Cairo. Situated on the Delta in the midst of a fertile district, Zagazig is a great centre of the cotton and grain trade of Egypt. It has large cotton factories and the offices of numerous Europeanmerchants. About 3km southeast of the town are the ruins of Bubastis.
And it has Zagazig University, one of the largest universities in Egypt, with colleges in different fields of science and arts. Also there is a branch for Al AzharUniversity, the largest Islamic university in the world.
AzZaqaziq, city in northeastern Egypt, capital of Sharqiyah governorate, 85 km (53 mi) northeast of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Founded in the 19th century along the Muways Canal, which traces an ancient branch of the Nile River, AzZaqaziq is a modern city with rail and road links to Cairo and the Suez Canal.
AzZaqaziq was the birthplace of Ahmed Arabi, the leader of nationalist uprisings in the early 1880s against Egypt's monarchy and the European forces that supported it.
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