Egypt
The Arab Republic of Egypt is in north-eastern Africa. Egypt is perhaps best known as the home of the ancient Egyptian civilization, with its art, temples, hieroglyphs, mummies, and above all, its pyramids.Tap on the map to travel |
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Cairo
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Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.
Alexandria
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Alexandria is Egypt's second largest city, its largest seaport, and the country's window onto the Mediterranean Sea.
Luxor
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Luxor is a modern city in Upper Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes.
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Lower Egypt
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Lower Egypt is the northern part of Egypt, containing the Nile Delta, Cairo and Alexandria.
Upper Egypt
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Upper Egypt is a region of the Nile Valley in Egypt, between Luxor and Aswan and the historical region of Lower Nubia, characterised by a number of ancient settlements and temple towns that draw thousands of travellers every year.
Middle Egypt
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Middle Egypt is an extensive region of Egypt, extending through the Nile River valley, roughly between the cities of Beni Suef and Qus.
Sinai
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The Sinai Peninsula, often shortened to Sinai is the easternmost part of Egypt between the Mediterranean and the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, both forks of the Red Sea.
Red Sea Coast
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The Red Sea Coast is a region of eastern Egypt, along the 800 km western shore of that sea, from Port Suez in the north to the Sudanese border in the south.
Western Desert
The Western Desert is part of the Sahara Desert and occupies all of Egypt west of the fertile strip of the Nile to the border with Libya.Egypt
- Type: Country with 100,000,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in North Africa and Asia
- Languages: Arabic, English and French
- Neighbors: Bi'r Tawīl, Israel, Libya and Sudan
- Categories: sovereign state, transcontinental country, Mediterranean country and locality
- Location: North Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
26.71° or 26° 42' 36" northLongitude of centre
30.23° or 30° 13' 48" eastPopulation
100,000,000Area
1,001,450 km² (386,662 miles²)Elevation
199 metres (653 feet)Capital
CairoCurrency
Pound (EGP)Phone code
.egInternet domain
20OpenStreetMap ID
node 424316018OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
357994Wikidata ID
Q79Egypt Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Maṣer
- Abkhazian: Египет
- Abkhazian: Мсыр
- Achinese: Meusé
- Adyghe: Мысыр
- Afar: Mısır
- Afrikaans: Egipte
- Akan: Misrim
- Akan: Nisrim
- Albanian: Egjipt
- Albanian: Egjipti
- Algerian Arabic: ماصر
- Amharic: Egypt
- Amharic: ግብጽ
- Amharic: ግብፅ
- Amis: Egypt
- Angika: मिस्र
- Arabic: Ehipto
- Arabic: Mişr
- Arabic: جمهورية مصر العربية
- Arabic: جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة
- Arabic: مصر
- Aragonese: Echipto
- Armenian: Եգիպտոս
- Arpitan: Ègipta
- Arpitan: Èg·ipte
- Assamese: ইজিপ্ত
- Asturian: Exiptu
- Atayal: Egypt
- Avaric: Misra
- Avaric: Египет
- Aymara: Iqiptu
- Azerbaijani: Misir
- Azerbaijani: Misir Ərəb Respublikası
- Balinese: Mesir
- Bambara: Eziputi
- Bambara: Misra
- Banjar: Mesir
- Bashkir: Мысыр
- Basque: Egipto
- Bavarian: Egyptn
- Bavarian: Ägyptn
- Belarusian: Егіпет
- Belarusian: Эгіпет
- Belarusian: Эгіпэт
- Bengali: মিশর
- Bhojpuri: इजिप्ट
- Bhojpuri: मिस्र
- Bishnupriya: মিশর
- Bislama: Ijip
- Bosnian: Egipat
- Breton: Egipt
- Buginese: Mesir
- Buginese: ᨆᨙᨔᨗᨑ
- Bulgarian: Арабска република Египет
- Bulgarian: Египет
- Burmese: အီဂျစ်
- Burmese: အီဂျစ်နိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Egipte
- Catalan: República Àrab d'Egipte
- Cebuano: Ehipto
- Central Bikol: Ehipto
- Central Kurdish: میسر
- Chamorro: Ehiptu
- Chavacano: Egipto
- Chechen: Мисар
- Cherokee: ᎢᏥᏈᎢ
- Cheyenne: Egypt
- Chinese: Ai-ki̍p
- Chinese: Āijí
- Chinese: 埃及
- Chinese: 米昔兒
- Chinese: 阿拉伯埃及共和国
- Chinese: 阿拉伯埃及共和國
- Church Slavic: Єгѷптъ
- Cornish: Ejyp
- Corsican: Eghjittu
- Corsican: Egittu
- Corsican: Republica Àraba d'Egittu
- Corsican: Ripublica Àraba d'Eghjittu
- Crimean Tatar: Mısır
- Croatian: Egipat
- Czech: Egypt
- Dagbani: Egypt
- Danish: Egypten
- Danish: Ægypten
- Dhivehi: މިޞްރު
- Dimli (individual language): Mısır
- Dotyali: इजिप्ट
- Dutch: EG
- Dutch: EGY
- Dutch: Egypte
- Dzongkha: ཨི་ཇིབཊ
- Eastern Mari: Египет
- Egyptian Arabic: جمهورية مصر العربيه
- Egyptian Arabic: مصر
- English: Arab Rep. Egypt
- English: Arab Republic of Egypt
- English: EGY
- English: Rep. Egypt
- English: Republic of Egypt
- English: eg
- Erzya: Египет Мастор
- Esperanto: Araba Respubliko Egiptio
- Esperanto: EG
- Esperanto: Egiptio
- Esperanto: Egipto
- Esperanto: Egiptujo
- Esperanto: Respubliko Egiptio
- Estonian: Egiptus
- Ewe: Edzipti
- Ewe: Egipte
- Ewe: Egypte nutome
- Extremaduran: Egitu
- Farefare: Egypt
- Faroese: Egyptaland
- Fiji Hindi: Egypt
- Fijian: Ijipita
- Fijian: Ijipta
- Finnish: Egypti
- Finnish: Egyptin tasavalta
- French: EG
- French: Egypte
- French: la République arabe d’Égypte
- French: Ég.
- French: Égypte
- Friulian: Egjit
- Fulah: Ejipt
- Fulah: Misra
- Gagauz: Egipet
- Gagauz: Mısır
- Galician: Exipto - مصر
- Galician: Exipto
- Galician: República Árabe de Exipto
- Gan Chinese: 埃及
- Ganda: Egypt
- Ganda: Misiri
- Georgian: ეგვიპტე
- German: Arabische Republik Ägypten
- German: Ägypten
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Egypt
- Goan Konkani: Ejipt
- Goan Konkani: ईजिप्त
- Goan Konkani: मिस्र
- Gorontalo: Mesir
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍅𐍀𐍄𐌰𐌿
- Greek: Αίγυπτος
- Greek: Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Αιγύπτου
- Guarani: Ehipto
- Guarani: Ehíto
- Guianese Creole French: Léjip
- Gujarati: ઇજિપ્ત
- Gujarati: મિસર
- Haitian: Ejip
- Hakka Chinese: Âi-khi̍p
- Hausa: Misira
- Hausa: Misra
- Hausa: Âi-khi̍p
- Hausa: ʻAikupika
- Hawaiian: ‘Aikupika
- Hebrew: מצרים
- Hindi: मिस्त्र
- Hindi: मिस्र
- Hungarian: Egyiptom
- Hungarian: Egyiptomi Arab Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Egyptaland
- Ido: Egiptia
- Igbo: Egypt
- Iloko: Ehipto
- Iloko: Ehípto
- Inari Sami: Egypt
- Inari Sami: Egypt arabitäsiväldi
- Indonesian: Mesir
- Indonesian: Republik Arab Mesir
- Indonesian: Republik Mesir
- Ingush: Мисаре
- Interlingua: Egypto
- Interlingue: Egiptia
- Irish: An Éigipt
- Irish: an Éigipt
- Italian: Egitto
- Italian: Repubblica Araba d'Egitto
- Jamaican Creole English: Iijip
- Japanese: エジプト
- Japanese: エジプト・アラブ共和国
- Japanese: 埃
- Japanese: 埃及
- Javanese: Mesir
- Kabiyè: Egipiti
- Kabyle: Maṣer
- Kalaallisut: Egypt
- Kalaallisut: Egypten
- Kalmyk: Иҗибдин Араб Орн
- Kannada: ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Egypt
- Kara-Kalpak: Mısır
- Kashmiri: مِسر
- Kashmiri: مِسٔر
- Kashubian: Egipt
- Kazakh: Мысыр
- Kazakh: Мысыр Араб Республикасы
- Khmer: អេហ្ស៊ីប
- Kikuyu: Egypt
- Kikuyu: Misri
- Kirghiz: Египет
- Komi: Египет Араб Республика
- Kongo: Misiri
- Korean: 애급
- Korean: 에짚트
- Korean: 이집트
- Kotava: Misra
- Kurdish: Misir
- Kurdish: میسر
- Ladin: Egit
- Ladino: Ayifto
- Lak: Мисри
- Lao: Ehipto
- Lao: ປະເທດເອຢິບ
- Lao: ອີຢິບ
- Latin: Aegyptus
- Latvian: Ēģipte
- Lezghian: Мисри
- Ligurian: Egitto
- Limburgan: Egypte
- Lingala: Ejipte
- Lingala: Ezípite
- Lingua Franca Nova: Egipte
- Lingua Franca Nova: Misre
- Literary Chinese: 埃及
- Lithuanian: Egiptas
- Livvi: Jegiptu
- Lojban: misrygu'e
- Lombard: Egit
- Low German: Egypte
- Low German: Ägypten
- Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska
- Luba-Katanga: Mushidi
- Lule Sami: Egippta
- Lule Sami: Egippta arábarepublijkka
- Luxembourgish: Arabesch Republik Egypten
- Luxembourgish: Egypten
- Luxembourgish: Republik Egypten
- Macedo-Romanian: Eghiptu
- Macedonian: Египет
- Madurese: Mesir
- Maithili: मिस्र
- Malagasy: Ejipta
- Malagasy: Ejypta
- Malay: Mesir
- Malay: مصر
- Malayalam: ഈജിപ്ത്
- Malayalam: ഈജിപ്റ്റ്
- Malayalam: ഈജിപ്റ്റ്
- Maltese: Eġittu
- Maltese: Repubblika Għarbija tal-Eġittu
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Eġittu
- Maltese: l-Eġittu
- Manipuri: ꯏꯖꯤꯞ
- Manx: Yn Egypt
- Maori: Īhipa
- Marathi: इजिप्त
- Mazanderani: مصر
- Min Dong Chinese: Ăi-gĭk
- Min Nan Chinese: Ai-ki̍p
- Min Nan Chinese: Ai-ki̍p A-la-pek Kiōng-hô-kok
- Min Nan Chinese: Egypt
- Minangkabau: Mesir
- Mingrelian: ეგვიპტე
- Mirandese: Eigito
- Moksha: Арабонь Республикась Эгипт
- Moksha: Эгипт
- Mongolian: Египет
- Mongolian: ꯏꯖꯤꯞ
- Moroccan Arabic: مصر
- N'Ko: ߌߖ߭ߌߔߑߕ
- Narom: Êgypte
- Nauru: Idjipt
- Navajo: Ahidiitłʼintsoh Daʼííłʼíní Bikéyah
- Neapolitan: Naggitto
- Nepali: इजिप्ट
- Nepali: मिस्र
- Newari: मिस्र
- Nias: Miserai
- North Ndebele: Egypt
- Northern Frisian: Egypten
- Northern Sami: Egypta
- Northern Sami: Egypta arábadásseváldi
- Norwegian: Egypt
- Norwegian Bokmål: Den arabiske republikken Egypt
- Norwegian Bokmål: Egypt
- Norwegian Bokmål: Egypten
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Egypt
- Novial: Egiptia
- Occitan (post 1500): Egipte
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܡܨܪܝܢ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܡܨܪܢ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ægypt
- Oriya: ଇଜିପ୍ଟ
- Oromo: Ijiipti
- Ossetian: Мысыр
- Paiwan: Idjiputu
- Pali: ईजिप्ट
- Pampanga: Ejiptu
- Panjabi: ਮਿਸਰ
- Papiamento: Egipto
- Pedi: Egypt
- Persian: مصر
- Picard: Édjipe
- Piemontese: Egit
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Ejiipt
- Polish: Arabska Republika Egiptu
- Polish: Egipt
- Pontic: Αίγυπτος
- Portuguese: Egipto
- Portuguese: Egito
- Portuguese: Republica Arabe do Egipto
- Portuguese: Republica Arabe do Egito
- Portuguese: República Árabe do Egipto
- Portuguese: República Árabe do Egito
- Pushto: مصر
- Quechua: Egipto
- Quechua: Ihiptu
- Romanian: Egipt
- Romansh: Egipta
- Rundi: Egipto
- Rundi: Misiri
- Russia Buriat: Египет
- Russian: АРЕ
- Russian: Арабская Республика Египет
- Russian: Египет
- Rusyn: Еґіпет
- Sakizaya: Egypt
- Samoan: Aikupito
- Samogitian: Egėpts
- Sango: Kâmitâ
- Sanskrit: ईजिप्तदेशः
- Santali: ᱢᱤᱥᱚᱨ
- Saraiki: مصر
- Sardinian: Egittu
- Sardinian: Egitu
- Saterfriesisch: Ägypten
- Scots: Egyp
- Scottish Gaelic: An Èipheit
- Scottish Gaelic: An Èiphit
- Serbian: Egipat
- Serbian: Египат
- Serbo-Croatian: Egipat
- Serbo-Croatian: Miṣra
- Shan: မိူင်းဢီးၵျိပ်ႈ
- Shona: Egypt
- Shona: Ijipita
- Sicilian: Eggittu
- Silesian: Egipt
- Sindhi: مصر
- Sinhala: ඊජිප්තු අරාබි ජනරජය
- Sinhala: ඊජිප්තුව
- Skolt Sami: Egyptt
- Skolt Sami: Egyypt araabtääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Egypt
- Slovak: Egyptská arabská republika
- Slovenian: Egipt
- Somali: Masar
- South Azerbaijani: مصر
- South Azerbaijani: میصر
- Southern Sotho: Egepeta
- Spanish: Egipto
- Spanish: Republica Arabpastas Marcelino e de Egipto
- Spanish: República Árabe de Egipto
- Sranan Tongo: Egiptakondre
- Sundanese: Mesir
- Swahili: Misri
- Swati: IGibhithe
- Swedish: Arabrepubliken Egypten
- Swedish: Egypten
- Swiss German: Ägypten
- Tachelhit: Miṣra
- Tagalog: Ehipto
- Tahitian: Egipt
- Tahitian: ’Aifiti
- Tajik: Миср
- Tamil: எகிப்து
- Taroko: Egypt
- Tatar: Мисыр
- Telugu: ఈజిప్టు
- Telugu: ఈజిప్ట్
- Tetum: Ejitu
- Thai: ประเทศอียิปต์
- Thai: อียิปต์
- Tibetan: ཨའི་ཅི།
- Tibetan: ཨི་ཇིབྚ།
- Tigrinya: EG
- Tigrinya: EGY
- Tigrinya: ዓረባዊት ሪፓብሊክ ግብጺ
- Tigrinya: ግብጺ
- Tigrinya: ግብጽ
- Tok Pisin: Ijip
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻIsipite
- Tosk Albanian: Ägypten
- Tsonga: Egypt
- Tsonga: Gibita
- Tumbuka: Egypt
- Tunisian Arabic: مصر
- Turkish: Mısır
- Turkmen: Müsür
- Tuvinian: Египет
- Twi: Egypt
- Tyap: Iji̱p
- Tyap: Ma̱sa̱r
- Tyap: Misi̱ri
- Udmurt: Египет
- Uighur: مىسىر
- Ukrainian: Єгипет
- Ukrainian: Арабська Республіка Єгипет
- Upper Sorbian: Egyptowska
- Urdu: مصر
- Uzbek: Misr
- Venetian: Ezito
- Veps: Egipt
- Vietnamese: Ai Cập
- Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Ai Cập
- Vlaams: Egypte
- Vlax Romani: Mêsire
- Volapük: Lägüptän
- Võro: Egüptüs
- Walloon: Edjipe
- Waray (Philippines): Ehipto
- Welsh: Yr Aifft
- Western Armenian: Եգիպտոս
- Western Balochi: میسر
- Western Frisian: Egypte
- Western Mari: Египет
- Western Panjabi: مصر
- Wolof: Esipt
- Wolof: Isipt
- Wu Chinese: 埃及
- Yakut: Эгиипэт
- Yiddish: עגיפּטן
- Yiddish: עגיפטן
- Yoruba: Égípítì
- Yoruba: Ìjíptì
- Yoruba: Ẹ́gíptì
- Yue Chinese: 埃及
- Zeeuws: Ehypte
- Zhuang: Aehciz
- Zhuang: Aihgiz
- Zulu: IGibhithe
- Zulu: i-Egypt
- Aigyptos
- Al Iqlīm al Janūbī
- Al Iqlīm al Mişrī
- Al Jumhūrīyah al Miṣrīyah
- Al Jumhūrīyah al ‘Arabīyah al Muttaḩidah
- Egitte
- El Masr
- El Qutr el Masri
- Jumhūrīyat Mişr al ‘Arabīyah
- Ma̱sa̱t
- Miserayi
- United Arab Republic
- ma Masu
- Мисир
- جُمهورِيةُ مِصرَ العَرَبيةِ
- مِصر
- អេស៊ីប
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