Egypt

Guide to EGYPT

EGYPT which official name is Arab Republic of Egypt or Egypt, is a country from Africa located at the Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula. EGYPT with 2,665 km sq km, limits with: Gaza Strip 11 km, Israel 266 km, Libya 1,115 km, Sudan 1,273 km; and is divided in 26 governorates . EGYPT's capital is Cairo which is the most populated city with about 7,734,602 inhabitants.

History of EGYPT

EGYPT's government is republic; a Republic with a Executive government type, with President Hosni Mubarak as head of state and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif as head of government.

Other symbols of EGYPT are Egyptian anthem "Bilady, Bilady, Bilady (My Homeland, My Homeland, My Homeland) Egyptian flag.Egyptian flag is composed by three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; the national emblem (a gold Eagle of Saladin facing the hoist side with a shield superimposed on its chest above a scroll bearing the name of the country in Arabic) centered in the white band; design is based on the Arab Liberation flag and similar to the flag of Syria, which has two green stars, Iraq, which has three green stars (plus an Arabic inscription) in a horizontal line centered in the white band, and Yemen, which has a plain white band .

EGYPT's history is quite long: The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C., and a series of dynasties ruled in Egypt for the next three millennia. The last native dynasty fell to the Persians in 341 B.C., who in turn were replaced by the Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines. It was the Arabs who introduced Islam and the Arabic language in the 7th century and who ruled for the next six centuries. A local military caste, the Mamluks took control about 1250 and continued to govern after the conquest of Egypt by the Ottoman Turks in 1517. Following the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt became an important world transportation hub, but also fell heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investments, Britain seized control of Egypt's government in 1882, but nominal allegiance to the Ottoman Empire continued until 1914. Partially independent from the UK in 1922, Egypt acquired full sovereignty following World War II. The completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1971 and the resultant Lake Nasser have altered the time-honored place of the Nile River in the agriculture and ecology of Egypt. A rapidly growing population (the largest in the Arab world), limited arable land, and dependence on the Nile all continue to overtax resources and stress society. The government has struggled to ready the economy for the new millennium through economic reform and massive investment in communications and physical infrastructure.

EGYPTs geography

Guide to travel to EGYPT

If you are thinking on traveling to EGYPT, you will have to take in consideration some points like EGYPT's currency, EGYPT's weather, EGYPT's national holiday and EGYPT's transports.

The first thing you need to know for your travels abroad is country's currency. EGYPT`s currency is called pound ( £E), which is divided in 100 piasters or 1,000 milliemes. For your consideration, pound's exchange rate is about 0 per dolar.5.3134999275.

EGYPT's weather is characterized to be desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters. So be sure of choosing the proper date to travel to EGYPT.

You can also consider to visit EGYPT on it's national holiday to get in EGYPT's culture. If you do so, EGYPT's national holiday is called Revolution Day, 23 July.

Also, if you like natural wonders, don't forget to visit the highest point of EGYPT: Mount Catherine 2,629 m. And try also to get to EGYPT's lowest point: Qattara Depression -133 mBut if you prefer the city, you must visit EGYPT's tallest structure: ( ).

Don't be afraid to take a flight to EGYPT, with more than 88 airports and 2 airlines, you will get to EGYPT without problems. Once there, you can choose the transport type that better fits your needs. EGYPT has about5,063 of railways, and also3,500 of roadways, so is a good place for a car trip.

Egyptian Culture

EGYPT is known by Egyptians as Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah or Misr in the shortened way. Egyptian, about 80,335,036 people, are composed by different ethnics: Egyptian 98%, Berber, Nubian, Bedouin, and Beja 1%, Greek, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%. And they also have different languages: Arabic.

Another relevant point nowadays it's EGYPT's religion. Egyptians are divided in Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, other Christian 1%. So you can visit any of it's5 like Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral .

But if want to know more about EGYPT's culture, the best way is by reading the most famous Egyptian novelists' books like Gamal Al-Ghitani, Sonallah Ibrahim, (1937– ) or Naguib Mahfouz, (1911-2006) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city..

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