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| Official language | Arabic | |||
| Capital | Cairo | |||
| Largest City | Cairo | |||
| President | Hosni Mubarak | |||
| Prime Minister | Ahmed Nazif | |||
| Area - Total - % water | Ranked 29th 1,001,450 km² 0.6% | |||
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Ranked 15th 74,718,797 75/km² | |||
| IndependenceAlternate uses: see Independence (disambiguation Independence for a country, organization or branch of government is the same as self-rule, as opposed to being ruled by someone else. Establishing such independence sometimes implies a violent break-out or - Granted |
from the UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly February 28February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 306 days remaining, 307 in leap years. Events 364 Valentinian I is elevated as Roman Emperor. 1258 Hulagu Khan sacks Baghdad 1700 February 28 is followed by March 1 in Sweden, th, 1922Events January 7 Dali Eireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. January 10 Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dail Eireann January 11 First successful insulin treatment of diabetes. January 12 British government releases Irish prisoners | |||
| CurrencyFor exchange rates, see here. A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and services. It is a form of money, where money is defined as a medium of exchange rather than e. a store of value. A currency zone is a country or region | Egyptian poundAs a unit of currency, the term pound originates from the value of a Troy pound weight ( Latin libra , of high purity silver, and is the currency unit of a number of countries: Cyprus see Cyprus Pound Egypt Gibraltar Lebanon Malta Syria see Syrian pound U (EGP) | |||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | UTCCoordinated Universal Time or UTC also sometimes referred to as Zulu time , the basis for civil time differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. Time zones around the world are expressed as positi +2 ( EET) | |||
| National anthem | Bilady, Bilady, Bilady | |||
| Internet TLD | .eg | |||
| Calling Code | 20 | |||
The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, ( Arabic: مصر, romanized Misr or Masr, in Egyptian dialect) is the most populous nation of northeastern Africa.
Covering an area of about 1,020,000 km², it includes the Sinai Peninsula (considered part of Southwest Asia), whilst the majority of the country is located in North Africa.
The vast majority of Egypt's population inhabit the length of the Nile river (about 40,000 km²). Large areas of land are part of the Sahara Desert and sparsely inhabited. The country is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most stunning ancient monuments, including pyramids, Karnak temple and the Valley of the Kings. Today, Egypt is widely considered the main political and cultural center of the Arab world.
The name Egypt came via Latin Aegyptus and Greek Αιγυπτος (Aiguptos) from Ancient Egyptian Hi-ku-ptah, which was the name of a temple at Thebes.
