The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Beni Suef
(b´ swf) (KEY) or Bani Suwayf (bä´n) (KEY) , city (1986 pop. 152,476), capital of Beni Suef governorate, N central Egypt, on the Nile River. Situated in an intensely cultivated farming region, Beni Suef has cotton mills and sugar refineries. Alabaster is quarried near the city.