Egypt status:

Location:

       Egypt has a very strategic location occupies the upper northeastern corner of Africa and, with the exception of the Nile River Valley and its Delta, is mainly a flat, vegetation-free desert.  The Nile flows north and empties into the Mediterranean Sea, which forms the country’s northern boundary.

Egypt is bordered on the south by Sudan, to the west by Libya and to its east by the Red Sea, and beyond the Sinai Peninsula, by Palestine. 

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Geography:

       Egypt is bordered on the south by Sudan, to the west by Libya and to its east by the Red Sea, and beyond the Sinai Peninsula, by Palestine.  The country encompasses about 626,000 square miles (1,002,000 square kilometers) and at its most distant reaches is 640 miles from north to south and 775 miles from east to west.

Egypt has two deserts, the Eastern Desert from the Nile to the Red Sea and the Western Desert, separated from the Sahara by sandstone and limestone highlands.
 

There are six inhabited oases watered for the most part through underground strata with water flowing north from Equatorial Africa.  Some of this water may take as many as 500 years to reach its final oasis destination.  The Sinai Peninsula separates the continents of Africa and Asia and is bordered by the Gulf of Aqaba on the east and the Gulf of Suez on the west.  Containing 6% of Egypt’s land area the Sinai is harsh desert in the north and granite mountains in the south.

   
    The Red Sea is over 1200 miles long and almost 1-1/2 miles deep.  It is part of the fault line juncture between the African and Arabian Tectonic plates, which culminates in the south in Africa’s Great Rift Valley.
 

Lowest Point: Qattara Depression –133m
Highest point: Mount Catherine 2,629 m
The Irrigated land: 33,000 sq km (1998 est.)
 

Egypt’s Natural resources: Petroleum, Natural gas, Iron Ore, Phosphates, Manganese, Limestone, Gypsum, Talc, Asbestos, Lead, Zinc

Egypt’s Natural resources: Petroleum, Natural gas, Iron Ore, Phosphates, Manganese, Limestone, Gypsum, Talc, Asbestos, Lead, Zinc

Climate:

Desert, hot, dry summers with moderate winters.

People:

1.83% (2004 est.)

The Citizens Structures:

• 0-14  years: 33.4% (male 13,038,369; female 12,418,254).

• 15-64  years :    62.2%    ( male 23,953949  ;   female    23,23,419,418).

• 65 years and over : 04.3%  (male 1,407,248;   female 1,880,183).

Religion:

Muslim (mostly Sunni) 94%, Coptic Christian and other 6%.