Beni-Souef

Beni-Souef, a town of Central Egypt, capital of a province of the same name, on the right bank of the Nile, about 70 miles SSW. of Cairo. A branch line of railway has been constructed westward to Medinet el Fayum, and the town is the entrepôt of all the produce of the fertile valley of Fayum, and has cotton-mills and alabaster quarries. The population of the province (470 sq. m.) is about 250,000; pop. of the town, 11,500.