Country ChooserCountry InformationEgypt![]() Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C,
TV Systems:
System:SECAM B/PAL B / SECAM G/PAL G
DVD-Region: 2
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula
Area:
total: 1,001,450 sq km
land: 995,450 sq km
water: 6,000 sq km
Climate:
desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
Terrain:
vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
Economy
GDP: $303.5 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 4.9% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $3,900 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 4.9% (2005 est.)
Currency: Egyptian pound (EGP)
Exchange rates:
Egyptian pounds per US dollar - 5.78 (2005), 6.1962 (2004), 5.8509 (2003), 4.4997 (2002), 3.973 (2001)
People
Population: 78,887,007 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 1.75% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, other Christian 1%
Languages:
Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
Government
Capital:
name: Cairo
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Friday in April; ends last Thursday in September
Independence:
28 February 1922 (from UK)
Note: Information on Egypt was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Egypt, please visit one of the links below.
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