Egypt
Egypt (officially Arab Republic of Egypt) is a country in Northern Africa, with its capital at Cairo, and is home to roughly 116.5M people.
Arabic is the official language; the currency in circulation is Egyptian pound (£); people from here are called Egyptian.
- »The Nile Valley and Delta hold nearly the entire population on a small fraction of the land.
- »The Great Pyramid was the tallest structure built by humans for around 3,800 years.
Egypt straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
Egypt touches four neighbours: Israel to the northeast, Libya to the west, Palestine to the northeast and Sudan to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Cairo is the largest city in the Arab world and sits beside Giza and its pyramids. A new administrative capital is being built in the desert to its east.
1,003,940 km² (387,623 sq mi), 29th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Mauritania.
Population 116,538,258, 13th of 198 on file. That averages 116 per km² (301 per sq mi).
The Eagle of Saladin at the centre is a pan-Arab symbol adopted after the 1952 revolution. Red for the struggle, white for the bloodless coup, black for the end of oppression.
Easily confused with Yemen and Iraq.
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