Kafr el-Sheikh (Arabic:كفر الشيخKafr el-Šēḵ, pronounced[kɑfɾ eʃˈʃeːx]) is the capital of Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, about 134km north of Cairo, in the Nile Delta of lower Egypt. As of November 2006, the town had a population of 147,380 inhabitants.