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'Fazogli' (Arabic: فازوجلي), or 'Fazokl', was a district in colonial Egypt under British rule. It lay on the border of present day Sudan and Ethiopia, between the Blue Nile and the Sobat River, and included the mountains in the modern Asosa Zone of the Ethiopian Benishangul-Gumuz Region. The west slope of the hills drains the White Nile.
The area was believed to be rich in gold deposits, and an Egyptian military expedition was sent to the area in the early 1820s in part determine the truth of this belief.^[1] Its inhabitants were afterwards governed by the Sudanese administration.

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1. Richard bangs and Pasquale Scaturro, ''Mystery of the Nile'' (New York:New American Library, 2005), pp. 19f