Pregnancy is an important time to prepare women and their families psychologically and emotionally for parenthood. Antenatal care (ANC) is defined as the care provided by skilled health-care providers to pregnant women to ensure the best health conditions for both mother and baby during pregnancy. Objective: is to study the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of pregnant women seeking antenatal care in Beni-Suef Governorate. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study conducted over a period of ten months(from April 2021 to January 2022), on 434 pregnant women attending for antenatal checkups at the ANC clinic of Beni-Suef University Hospital and 6 primary health care facilities which were randomly selected: El-kom El-ahmar, El mermah health care centers, El Ghamrawy and Sharq El-Nile health offices in Beni-Suef city, Bani-adi primary health care center and Naser health office from Naser City. A self-structured questionnaire prepared in Arabic language was used. Results: Pregnant women utilizing antenatal care services were mainly in the age group 20-35 (78.6%), had preuniversity and university education (34.3%) and (30.0%), respectively. Three quarters of the pregnant women had a complicated previous pregnancy with abortion (73.9%), around one-half of them had previously delivered by cesarean section (48.2%). Pregnant women seeking ANC were mainly in the third trimester (53%), most of them had a planned pregnancy (68%) and the largest percentage of the studied women were multigravida (59.4 %) with a mean equal 2.9 ±1.8 SD. Conclusion and Recommendation: There should be proper health care programs for pregnant women with health education about ANC services all through the gestation period