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.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »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.
> THE OUTLINE_
Egypt straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
> BORDERS_
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.
> THE CAPITAL_
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.
> SCALE_
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 FLAG_
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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