Scale 1:50,000 (2 cm. = 1 kilometre; 1·3 inches = 1 mile).—These maps are printed in three colours. Names are given in English, and as a rule in Arabic as well. This series is completed for the whole of the cultivated area of the Nile Valley and Delta. There are 164 sheets.
A second and revised edition is being published gradually; it will include the sheets of certain outlying areas such as Lake Menzala, Suez Canal, Wadi Natrun, etc., which, owing to lack of time or opportunity, have either not been published or published from defective data.
Scale 1:250,000 (1 cm. = 5 kilometres; 1 inch = 8 miles).—The preparation of the four sheets of this series, embracing the area of the Delta, is now being proceeded with. The two western sheets are printed in English only and the remaining two eastern sheets will be published by the end of the year (1912). Price, 100 milliemes per sheet.
Scale 1:1,000,000 (1 cm. = 10 kilometres; 1 inch = 16 miles).—The six sheets of this map, covering the whole of Egypt, have now been published. The names are in English. The price of each sheet is 50 and 65 milliemes for paper and cloth editions respectively, or the whole can be obtained mounted on cloth, varnished, and fitted with rollers for 550 milliemes.
Special Maps on Various Scales.
- Map of Cairo and Environs (*), 1 sheet, scale 1:100,000. Price, 100 milliemes on ordinary paper or 150 mounted and folded for the use of tourists.
- Map of the Delta (*) (†), 4 sheets, scale 1:200,000. Price, 75 milliemes per sheet, or the complete map mounted on cloth, varnished, and fitted with rollers, 700 milliemes.
- Map of the Delta (†), 4 sheets, scale 1:200,000, showing telephone lines. Price as the one above.
- Lower Egypt and the Fayûm, 1904 (latest edition) (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000.
- Lower Egypt, showing lines of communication (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000.
- Map of Menufîa mudiria (*), scale 1:50,000, in two sheets mounted together on cloth and fitted with rollers. Price, 850 milliemes.
- Northern Gharbîa (*†), 1 sheet, scale 1:200,000.
- Kharga Oasis (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000.
- Dakhla Oasis (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000.
- Baharia Oasis (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000.
- Farafra and Iddalia Oases (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000.
- Provisional map of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, East Qena-Aswân to Red Sea (†), 20 sheets, scale 1:100,000.
- Provisional map of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, between Qus, Sayala, and Red Sea (†), 2 sheets, scale 1:500,000.
- Provisional map of a part of the Eastern Desert Oilfield (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:100,000. Price, 100 milliemes on paper and 150 milliemes on cloth.
- Provisional map of a part of the Eastern Desert Oilfield, showing registered prospecting areas (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:100,000. Price, 100 milliemes on paper and 150 milliemes on cloth.
- Red Sea and Sinai Oilfield, showing registered prospecting areas (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:316,800. Price, 100 milliemes on paper and 150 milliemes on cloth.
- Jemsa Oil Zone (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:75,000 and 1:250,000. Price, 50 milliemes.
- Mersa Matruh chart (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:4,500.
- Mersa Matruh topographical map (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:10,000.
- Mersa Matruh and Ras Allam Rum (†), 2 sheets, scale 1:25,000.
- Aqaba-Rafa, 1906 (*†), 3 sheets, scale 1:100,000.
- Aqaba-Rafa, 1906 (*) (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000 (paper, 25 milliemes; cloth, 40 milliemes).
- The Nile Valley from Aswân to Sudan boundary (†), 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
- Port d’Alexandrie (French), 3 sheets, scale 1:4,000.
ATLASES AND SCHOOL-MAPS.
The price of the school-maps, printed in colours, mounted on cloth, varnished, and fitted on rollers, is 700 milliemes per copy, except the Maps of the Mediterranean Basin and of the Ottoman Empire which are 500 milliemes per copy. The price of each part of the Atlas of the World, published separately, will be 200 milliemes.