Egypt 1:500,000.
Great Britain.War Office.General Staff.Geographical Section.
Egypt.Maṣlaḥat al-Misāḥah.
[London] : War Office,
1938-
Complete in 11 sheets? Set includes various issues of some sheets; some issued also by British Middle East Forces (M.D.R. 575); some reprinted by U.S. Army Map Service.
Elevations in meters shown by altitude tints.
Military grid on some sheets.
Shows standard and narrow gauge railroads, and three classes of roads or tracks. Some sheets have notes regarding trafficability of terrain off the mapped routes.
Some sheets, based on maps by Survey of Egypt, are in English and Arabic.
"List of permanent water supplies" on most sheets.
Marginal diagrams: Index to adjoining sheets.
Graphic index in central GSGS file (Interfiled with Survey of Egypt maps).
Transportation