The Nile's narrow valley holds around 95 per cent of the population on about 5 per cent of the land.
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Egypt
Arab Republic of Egypt ยท ู
ุตุฑ
Africa
ยท Northern Africa
0Population
1Mkmยฒ of land
$3.02KGDP / person
CairoCapital
- ISO codes
- EG ยท EGY
- Density
- 100 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Egyptian pound (EGP)
- Dial code
- +20
- Internet domain
- .eg
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 26.1860ยฐ N, 29.4460ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Egyptian
- UN region
- Northern Africa
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $303.09B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Egypt stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
14th
of 242 ยท 1.31% of world population
Land area
31st
of 242 ยท 0.67% of world land
GDP per person
175th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
103rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Egypt
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 100,388,073 people, the 14th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.31 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,002,450 kmยฒ, making it the 31st largest country here - about 10.9 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 100 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Cairo, at 30.05ยฐ N, 31.25ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 11,893,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Israel, Libya and Sudan.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Cairo.
The currency is the Egyptian pound (EGP, symbol ยฃ).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Cairo
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Cairo
Al Qahirah
30.0519ยฐ N, 31.2480ยฐ E
11.89M
2
Alexandria
Al Iskandariyah
31.2020ยฐ N, 29.9481ยฐ E
4.17M
3
Bur Said
Bur Sa`id
31.2600ยฐ N, 32.2900ยฐ E
623.86K
4
Luxor
Qina
25.7000ยฐ N, 32.6500ยฐ E
609.25K
5
Suez
As Suways
30.0050ยฐ N, 32.5499ยฐ E
508.34K
6
Asyut
Asyut
27.1900ยฐ N, 31.1799ยฐ E
420.59K
7
El Faiyum
Al Fayyum
29.3100ยฐ N, 30.8400ยฐ E
316.77K
8
Aswan
Aswan
24.0875ยฐ N, 32.8989ยฐ E
313.44K
๐ Peaks
Mount Sinai
2,285 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Great Pyramid of Giza
Ancient
The only wonder of the ancient world still standing, and the tallest human structure on Earth for nearly four thousand years.
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Egypt.