Cairo Governorate. Alexandria Governorate. Regions of Egypt. The governorates of Egypt are divided into 232 regions.
Local government traditionally enjoyed limited power in Egypt's highly centralized state. Under the central government, there were twenty nine governorates. These were subdivided into regions (conglomeration of villages; named in Arabic: مركز markaz "center", plural: مراكز marākiz), each of which was further subdivided into towns or villages. At each level, there was a governing structure that combined representative councils and government-appointed executive organs headed by governors, district officers, and mayors, respectively. Governors were appointed by the president, and they, in turn, appointed subordinate executive officers. Governorates of Egypt. Egypt is divided for administrative purposes into 27 governorates (محافظة muḥāfaẓah Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [moˈħɑfzˤɑ]; genitive case: muḥāfaẓat [moˈħɑfzˤet]; plural محافظات muḥāfaẓāt [moħɑfˈzˤɑːt]).
Egyptian governorates are the top tier of the country's five-tier jurisdiction hierarchy. A governorate is administered by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Egypt and serves at the president's discretion. Most governorates have a population density of more than one thousand per km², while the 3 largest have a population density of less than two per km². Governorates of Egypt Governorates are either fully "urban" or else an admixture of "urban" and "rural".