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Egypt is a made up of a mix of tribal customs, traditions dating way back to the pharaohs.

The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations. For millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and stable culture that influenced later cultures of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself came under the influence of Hellenism, for a time Christianity, and later, Islamic culture. Practices of the Egyptian religion were efforts to providing for the gods and gain their favor. The formal religious practice centered on the pharaoh, who was then the king of Egypt.

When it comes to family culture honored men for their ability to work, provide food and shelter, and fight if necessary and women respectfully due to their childbearing ability and their contributions to family life through working in fields, weaving and housekeeping.

The country known as Egypt is officially called the Arab Republic of Egypt and it is situated in the north-east of Africa; though the Sinai Peninsula forms a land bridge with south-west Asia. It is because of this that Egypt is also called a Middle-East country. Therefore Egypt is a transcontinental country, which helps it in being a major power in Africa, the Middle-East, the Mediterranean, and the Muslim world.

Egypt covers an area of approximately 1,001,450km2 (386,662 miles²) and is bordered by Israel and the Gaza Strip in the north-east; the Red Sea in the east; Sudan in the south; Libya in the west; and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. It is the 3rd most populous country in Africa and the most populous in the Middle-East with the majority of its estimated 80 million people living on, or near, the banks of the River Nile. Only 5.5% of the total land area is actually used by the population, the area that borders the River Nile as well as a few oases, the other 94.5% being uninhabitable desert.

The River Nile vertically bisects the Sahara Desert and the area to the west is known as the Western Desert, or Libyan Desert, with the area to the East, as far as the Red Sea, being called the Eastern Desert. The desert itself is very sparsely inhabited with relatively small population centres growing up around oases such as the Fayoum, Siwa, Bahariya, Farafra, Dakhla and Kharga to the west and any areas of habitation being restricted to the many wadis (or valleys) to the east.

 EGYPT GENERAL INFORMATION

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Cairo

Ancient Memphis 

Pyramids of Giza 

Pyramids of Saqqara 

Pyramids of Dahshour

Pyamids of Mydum 

Egyptian Museum 

Coptic Museum

Citadel of Saladin 

Khan El-Khalili Bazar

Hanging Church 

Santa Barbara 

Old Islamic Cairo:

Old Coptic Cairo

Sultan Hassan Mosque 

Luxor

Luxor Temple 
Karnak Temple
Colossi Of Memnon 
Valley of the Kings 
Deir El Bahri
Medinat Habu 
Valley of the Queens 
Valley of the Nobles 
Temple of Dendera 
Temple of Esna 
Temple of Abydos

Deir El Medina

Luxor Museum

Mummification Museum

Alexandria

Qaitbay Fortress
Pompeii Pillar 
Catacombs of Kom El-Shouqafa 
Roman Amphitheatre 
Montazah Palace Gardens
 

From Nile Cruise
Kom Ombo Temple

Edfu Temple

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Aswan

Philae Temple 

Abu Simbel Temple
Nubian Temples
Unfinished Obelisk
Nubian Museum 
Nubian village
Aga Khan Mausoleum
The tombs of the Nobles
Botanical Garden

Arab Republic of Egypt -  جمهورية مصر العربية

 

- Continent - Africa

- Subcontinent - North Africa

- Capital - Cairo

- Population (2015) -  88.096.996 people

- Annual growth rate - 1960%

- Area - 1.001.449 km2

- Density - 87.91 people/km2

- GDP (2014) - 286.03$ billion

- USDGDP / capita (2013) - 3.200$

- USDGDP growth (2014) - 2.20%

- Life expectancy (2012) - 70.40 years

- Rate of birth (2011) - 30.30 ‰

- Total fertility rate (2011) - 2.97 children / woman

- Rate of mortality (2011) - 6.10 ‰

- Rate of infant mortality (2011) - 14.70 ‰

- Rate of literacy (2014) - 73.75 %

- Official Languages - Arabic 

- Currency -  Egyptian Pound (EGP)

- Nature of the state - Republic 

- President - Abdel Fattah el Sisi

- National Day  - July 23 (Revolution of 1952)

- Internet country code:. Eg

- International dialing code - +20

- Inhabitants - Egyptian,

- Tourists (2014)  - 9.877.000 people

- Religions: - Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%,

                      - Coptic 9%,

                      - other Christian 1%

 (Source PopulationData.net)

Economy.

 

- About 25 percent of the gross domestic product comes from industry and about 18 percent from agriculture. The remaining 57 percent includes all other activities, primarily services, including tourism, and the "informal sector.

- Egypt is a rich agricultural country, with some of the highest yields per unit of land in the world.

- The main crops are cotton, sugarcane, wheat, maize, and fava beans with substantial areas given over to fruit orchards (primarily citrus) and to vegetables.

- Livestock (cattle, water buffalo, sheep, and goats) is also important and some land is used to grow fodder crops for these animals.

- There are two crops a year on average. Individual farmers try to be self-sufficient in certain crops such as wheat, but on the whole they market what they grow and procure their own food also from the market.

- Elaborate market networks composed of small-scale traders purchase food crops and trade them into the urban areas, or sometimes between rural areas.

- On the whole, the marketing sector is characterized by a plethora of small units, although a few large-scale trading companies operate. Being too small to bargain on price, farmers have to accept the trader's offer.

 

  • Airports: -  69 (2015)

  • Railways: -  Total: 5,083 km Country comparison to the world: 35 

  • Roadways: - Total: 65,050 km Country comparison to the world: 70 Paved: 47,500 km Unpaved: 17,550 km (2009)

  • Ports and terminals: - Ayn Sukhnah, Alexandria, Damietta, El Dekheila, Port Said, Sidi Kurayr, Suez

  • Borders:

 - Gaza Strip:  11 km

 - Israel:  266 km

 - Lybia:  1.115 km

 - Sudan:  1.273 km

  • Egypt highest point:

Mount Catherine 2,629 m

  • Egypt lowest point:

Qattara Depression -133 m

  • About 3% of Egypt's land is arable.

  • Egypt Exports:

 - crude oil and petroleum products,

 - cotton,

 - textiles,

 - metal products,

 - chemicals,

 - processed food

  • Egypt Imports:

 - machinery and equipment,

 - foodstuffs,

 - chemicals,

 - wood products,

 - fuels

 

 

Egypt Flag colors

symbolism

 

 

  • Red represents the struggle against the British occupation of Egypt (the period before 1952)

  • White symbolizes the advent of the 1952 Revolution which ended the monarchy without bloodshed.

  • Black stands for the end of the oppression of the people of Egypt at the hands of the Monarchy and British colonialism (the period after 1952)

  • Eagle of Saladin represents power and strength

Egypt Coat of arms
  • Egypt is divided into 29 governorates.

     

    The governorates are further divided into regions. The regions contain towns and villages. Each governorate has a capital, sometimes carrying the same name as the governorate.

Top 11 cities of Egypt with populations (2012 est.) are:

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Governorates of Egypt

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