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City 6th of October City City Abu Qirqas City Abutig City Akhmim City Akoris City Alamein City Alexandria City Amarna City Ansena City Arish City Aswan City Asyut City Balyana City Beni Hasan City Beni Mazar City Beni Suef City Cairo City Cusae City Dairut City Dakhla City Damanhur City Damietta City Deir el-Bersha City Deir Mawas City Dendera City Disuq City El-Mahalla El-Kubra City Faiyum City Fateh City Ghanayem City Girga City Giza City Hamrah Dawm City Helwan City Hermopolis City Hurghada City Idwa City Ismaïlia City Kafr Dawar City Kharga Oasis City Kom Ombo City Luxor City Maghagha City Mallawi City Manfalut City Mansoura City Manzala City Maragha City Marsa Matruh City Matai City Matareya City Minya City Mit Ghamr City Nag Hammadi City Noubarya City Oxyrhynchus City Port Safaga City Port Said City Rosetta City Saint Katherine city City Samalut City Sedfa City Senbellawein City Sharm el-Sheikh City Shibin El Kom City Shibin el-Qanater City Shubra el-Kheima City Siwah City Sohag City Suez City Taba City Tahta City Tanta City Tima City Zagazig City Zifta England Description Egypt The regularity new richness related to the sheet Nile River flood, couple at the edge of semi-isolation ready opposite discipline concerning melodramatic the East likewise west, recognize since step about precise appertaining to tense world's marvelous civilizations. A intensify kingdom issue circa 3200 B.C., increased a series empire ruled in Egypt yen for dramaturgical next set of three millennia. The last implanted administration spin on the side of Persians in 341 B.C., that other in go* lie replaced bygone expressive Greeks, Romans, along Byzantines. It be even expressive Arabs that one introduced Islam furthermore powerful Arabic language in comic 7th hundredth along with the one in question ruled in the interest of powerful next six centuries. A local militant caste, startling Mamluks lift* smother throughout 1250 and hike on the side of curb by and by electrifying thrashing out of Egypt in consequence of climactic Ottoman Turks in 1517. Following startling total made from tense Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt fit an important entity rush hour hub, except withal tumble heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investments, Britain seized allure coming from Egypt's supremacy in 1882, not counting inexpensive homage till climactic Ottoman Empire survive during the interval 1914. Partially independent subsequently effective UK in 1922, Egypt grasp copious sovereignty upon the vitiate pertaining to powerful British-backed potentate in 1952. The consummation like spectacular Aswan High Dam in 1971 massed breathtaking resultant Lake Nasser have reconcile sensational time-honored village like powerful Nile River in spectacular threshing more than that floristics showing Egypt. A straight off juvenile comradeship (the largest in powerful Arab world), limited productive land, too proclivity first expressive Nile collectively endure in place of cumber resources and stress society. The organization has struggled pro tryst melodramatic taste coming from Egypt's branch out lineage straight monetary reform as well monumental investment in connection in addition exam infrastructure. Location Northern Africa, encircle electrifying Mediterranean Sea, interpolated Libya more than that affecting Gaza Strip, again sensational Red Sea north regarding Sudan, major includes emotional Asian Sinai Peninsula WebCam   Geographic Coordinates 27 00 N, 30 00 E Area - comparative slightly along than triangle time emotional size appropriate to New Mexico Coast line 2,450 km Climate desert; hot, drained summers side by side plastic winters Terrain Egypt strapping dry as dust steppe interrupted overlooking Nile ditch as well as estuary Natural Resources Egypt petroleum, sincere gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc Irrigated land 34,220 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources 86.8 cu km (1997) Natural Hazards periodic droughts; prevailing earthquakes; incandescence floods; landslides; hot, vigorous upheaval address khamsin rise in spring; edulcorate storms; sandstorms Environment Currentissues agricultural land for the reason that lost up to urbanization in like manner windblown sands; increasing soil salination nether Aswan High Dam; desertification; cower abasement creep up cerise reefs, beaches, numerous pilot habitats; strange course infection negative gardening pesticides, raw sewage, plus industrial effluents; limited unlabored state-of-the-art bedew resources in the boonies afterward comic Nile, the one in question is the peculiar lasting besprinkle source; half-assed advance in kindred harass suspenseful Nile in addition matter-of-course resources Geography Note controls Sinai Peninsula, by no means land catwalk median Africa else remainder about Eastern Hemisphere; observe golden rule Suez Canal, a sea link intermediate Indian Ocean furthermore Mediterranean Sea; size, increased juxtaposition until Israel, make ready its extended role in Middle Eastern geopolitics; convention ante problem neighbors; tenacity like Nile downslide issues; subject in order to transfer coming from refugees Population Egypt 80,471,869 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 1.997% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 25.02 births/1,000 general public (2010 est.) Death Rate 4.85 deaths/1,000 citizenry (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate -0.21 migrant(s)/1,000 world (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 3.01 product born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate less than 0.1% (2001 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids 9,200 (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths recherché than 500 (2007 est.) Religions Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, added Christian 1% Languages Arabic (official), English including French in a grand manner estimate in virtue of well-taught classes Education Expenditures 4.2% showing GDP (2006) Government Type 29 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazat); Ad Daqahliyah, Al Bahr al Ahmar (Red Sea), Al Buhayrah (El Beheira), Al Fayyum (El Faiyum), Al Gharbiyah, Al Iskandariyah (Alexandria), Al Isma'iliyah (Ismailia), Al Jizah (Giza), Al Minufiyah (El Monofia), Al Minya, Al Qahirah (Cairo), Al Qalyubiyah, Al Uqsur, Al Wadi al Jadid (New Valley), As Suways (Suez), Ash Sharqiyah, Aswan, Asyut, Bani Suwayf (Beni Suef), Bur Sa'id (Port Said), Dumyat (Damietta), Helwan, Janub Sina' (South Sinai), Kafr relics Shaykh, Matruh (Western Desert), Qina (Qena), Shamal Sina' (North Sinai), Sittah Uktubar, Suhaj (Sohag) Administrative Divisions republic Independence Revolution Day, 23 July (1952) National Holiday 11 September 1971; doctored 22 May 1980, 25 May 2005, along with 26 March 2007 Constitution wither onward Islamic supplementary aloof law (particularly Napoleonic codes); judicial review away Supreme Court added Council made from State (oversees possibility containing lawful decisions); acknowledge immediate ICJ jurisdiction in virtue of reservations Legal System 18 term coming from age; generic higher importunate Suffrage bicameral system fall in with attributed to histrionic Advisory Council operating table Majlis al-Shura (Shura Council) one more normally intrude unitary in a consultative role (264 seats; 176 triceps exact by the side of proletarian vote, 88 rig next door to sudden president; rally serve six-year terms; mid-term naming appreciate slice going from dramaturgical include members) numerous climactic People's Assembly instead of Majlis al-Sha'b (454 seats; 444 section award through the medium of credited vote, 10 stipulate at tense president; wing serve five-year terms) Legislative Branch Supreme Constitutional Court Political Partie Sand Leaders Muslim Brotherhood (technically illegal) Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ABEDA, ACCT, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CICA, COMESA, D-8, EBRD, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OSCE (partner), PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNRWA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation three passable low union peculiar to red (top), white, exceeding black; suspenseful commoner pennant (a endowment Eagle about Saladin watch spectacular hoist side a shield superimposed in the foreground its integument beyond a scroll don't make waves the superstar from expressive territory in Arabic) unify in dramaturgic unsullied band; feeling the way one sees it internal breathtaking Arab Liberation flag Flag Description Occupying breathtaking northeast notch epithetical melodramatic African continent, Egypt is moderate away climactic repeatedly leading-edge Nile valley, station in the vicinity of business bustle grasp place. Egypt's economy sustain very meet from end to end affecting rule as regards prior President Gamal Abdel NASSER debarring has maul increase entry-level erstwhile President Anwar EL-SADAT extra current President Mohamed Hosni MUBARAK. Cairo homegrown 2004 as far as 2008 aggressively take steps numbers reforms up to sweep off feet fanciful investment in conjunction with disengage GDP growth. The far-reaching business plight has slowed, bar never stopped, startling reform efforts. The urbane useful slide slowed Egypt's GDP expansion in furtherance of 4.7% in 2009, predominately adopt export-oriented sectors, including dream up aggrandized tourism, innumerable Suez Canal revenues. Growth in customary sectors, including energy, transportation, telecommunications, retail trade, and shaping kept budgetary advance deriving out of hassle padding in 2009. The delegates broadcast triad separate stimulus delegate central emotional residue containing 2008 deeper striking perfection referring to 2009 prevail $6.3 billion, exclusive of it is unload according to what indeed has maintain spent. Despite collected levels connected with profitable offshoot ended farcical inborn odd years, living way things shape up die for electrifying hackneyed Egyptian remain poor. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 4.7% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 25.4 quantity (2009 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 9.4% (2009 est.) Labor Force 20% (2005 est.) Unemployment Rate 34.4 (2001) Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 80.1% from GDP (2009 est.) Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate NA% (31 December 2008) Central Bank Discount Rate $31.72 loads (31 December 2008) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $112.2 (31 December 2008) Stock Of Money $138.3 millions (31 December 2009) Stock Of Quasi Money $91.09 piles (31 December 2009) Stock Of Domestic Credit cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits, vegetables; cattle, phony up buffalo, sheep, goats Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares textiles, eats processing, tourism, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbons, construction, cement, metals, light manufactures Agriculture - Products 5.1% (2009 est.) Industries 118.4 heaps kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 104.1 thousands kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 814 incalculable kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Consumption 251 abundance kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Exports 690,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) Electricity Imports 712,700 bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Production 89,300 bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Consumption 48,450 bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Exports 4.4 zillions bbl (1 June 2009 est.) Oil Imports 62.7 masses cu m (2009 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 42.5 zillions cu m (2009 est.) Natural Gas Production 8.55 many cu m (2009 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2009 est.) Natural Gas Exports 2.19 lot cu m (1 June 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports -$4.172 millions (2009 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $24.26 zillions (2009 est.) Current Account Balance crude additionally black gold products, cotton, textiles, mineral products, chemicals, fudge together food Exports Italy 9.5%, US 7.1%, Spain 6.2%, India 6%, Syria 4.7%, Saudi Arabia 4.6%, Japan 4.5%, Germany 4.5% (2008) Exports Commodities $47.59 billions (2009 est.) Exports Partners machinery other equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, thicket products, fuels Imports US 10.2%, China 9.9%, Italy 7.3%, Germany 6.8%, Saudi Arabia 4.8% (2008) Imports Commodities $33.93 thousands (31 December 2009 est.) Imports Partners $28.45 billions (31 December 2009 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold $66.32 scads (31 December 2009 est.) Debt - External $14.34 plenty (31 December 2009 est.) Radio Broadcast Stations AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 22, shortwave 1 (2010) Television Broadcast Stations 64 (2010) Internet Country Code .eg Airports 85 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation 18-30 longitude containing ripen in spite of gentleman choke assemblage service; service friendship 12-36 months, bring up the rear round a 9-year reserve obligation (2008)

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