Sohag City located in central Egypt with 210,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), It is located 200 km southeast Luxor on the western bank of the Nile, across from the city of Akhmim which is the capital of Sohag governorate with 3.8 million inhabitants (2005 estimate) - The ancient town of Ipu was situated at Akhmim, on the east bank of the Nile opposite the town of Sohag. In pharaonic times it was also known as Khent-Min, being the cult centre of the god Min. It is thought that Tiye, the mother of Akhenaten, had extensive estates in the area, which flourished as the capital of the 9th Upper Egyptian nome in the Ptolemaic Period, when it was known as Khemis. The Greeks knew the town as Panopolis, and the early Coptic Christians called Chmin, Sohag now a territory of 1,547 km².Industries of Sohag include cotton ginning, weaving of textiles.