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Egypt (Arabic : مصر Miṣr [mesˁr] , Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mɑsˤr] ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt , is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia . It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast , the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west . The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia . Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt , while Alexandria , the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast . At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world , and the third-most populated in Africa.
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation , Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Egypt was an early and important centre of Christianity , later adopting Islam from the seventh century onwards. Cairo became the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in the tenth century, and of the Mamluk Sultanate in the 13th century. Egypt then became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, before its local ruler Muhammad Ali established modern Egypt as an autonomous Khedivate in 1867.
Egypt's current government, a semi-presidential republic led by president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi since he was elected in 2014, has been described by a number of watchdogs as authoritarian and responsible for perpetuating the country's poor human rights record . Islam is the official religion of Egypt, and Arabic is its official language. The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 40,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large regions of the Sahara desert, which constitute most of Egypt's territory, are sparsely inhabited. About 43% of Egypt's residents live across the country's urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta. Egypt is considered to be a regional power in North Africa , the Middle East and the Muslim world , and a middle power worldwide. It is a developing country having a diversified economy, which is the largest in Africa , the 38th-largest economy by nominal GDP and 127th by nominal GDP per capita. Egypt is a founding member of the United Nations , the Non-Aligned Movement , the Arab League , the African Union , Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , World Youth Forum , and a member of BRICS . (Full article... )
Vegetation beside the Nile near Aswan
The
wildlife of Egypt is composed of the
flora and
fauna of this country in northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia, and is substantial and varied. Apart from the fertile
Nile Valley , which bisects the country from south to north, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few scattered
oases . It has long coastlines on the
Mediterranean Sea , the
Gulf of Suez , the
Gulf of Aqaba and the
Red Sea . Each geographic region has a diversity of plants and animals each adapted to its own particular habitat. (
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The following are images from various Egypt-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Hosni Mubarak — president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 (from
Egypt )
Image 2 Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from
Egypt )
Image 3 Rectangular fishpond with ducks and
lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees,
Tomb of Nebamun , Thebes, 18th Dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 4 Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of
Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple , Deir el-Bahari (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 5 Early tomb painting from
Nekhen ,
c. 3500 BC , Naqada, possibly Gerzeh culture (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 6 Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the
Project for Public Spaces . (from
Egypt )
Image 7 The
pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 8 Frontispiece of
Description de l'Égypte , published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829 (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 9 A tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer, painting in the tomb of
Nakht . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 10 Salah Zulfikar , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 11 The
Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in
hieratic ,
c. 1550 BC . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 12 A crowd at Cairo Stadium watching the
Egypt national football team (from
Egypt )
Image 13 The Ptolemaic Queen
Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar,
Caesarion , at the
Temple of Dendera (from
Egypt )
Image 15 The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from
Egypt )
Image 16 Egypt's topography (from
Egypt )
Image 17 Temple of Derr ruins in 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 18 Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of
Nefermaat and his wife
Itet (
c. 2700 BC ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 19 The Weighing of the Heart from the
Book of the Dead of Ani (from
Egypt )
Image 20 The well preserved Temple of Isis from
Philae is an example of
Egyptian architecture and
architectural sculpture . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 22 The
Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the
ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from
Egypt )
Image 23 The
Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , the sixth caliph, as renovated by
Dawoodi Bohra (from
Egypt )
Image 24 Muhammad Ali was the founder of the
Muhammad Ali dynasty and the first
Khedive of Egypt and
Sudan . (from
Egypt )
Image 25 Hieroglyphs on stela in
Louvre ,
c. 1321 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 26 Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch
Mesehti (
11th dynasty ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 27 Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the
Suez Canal hit during the initial
Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from
Egypt )
Image 29 Model of a household porch and garden,
c. 1981–1975 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 30 Ancient Egyptians playing music (from
Egypt )
Image 31 A typical
Naqada II jar decorated with gazelles (Predynastic Period) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 32 Egyptian tanks advancing in the Sinai desert during the
Yom Kippur War , 1973 (from
Egypt )
Image 33 Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser in Mansoura, 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 34 British infantry near
El Alamein , 17 July 1942 (from
Egypt )
Image 35 Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the
Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from
Egypt )
Image 36 Four colossal statues of
Ramesses II flank the entrance of his temple
Abu Simbel . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 38 Napoleon defeated the
Mamluk troops in the
Battle of the Pyramids , 21 July 1798, painted by
Lejeune . (from
Egypt )
Image 39 The
Narmer Palette depicts the unification of the Two Lands. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 40 Tutankhamun charging enemies on his
chariot , 18th dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 41 The gods
Osiris ,
Anubis , and
Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (
KV57 ) in the Valley of the Kings (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 42 Coffin of Khnumnakht in 12th dynasty style, with palace facade, columns of inscriptions, and two Wedjat eyes (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 43 Alexandria in 2017 (from
Egypt )
Image 46 Sennedjem plows his fields in
Aaru with a pair of oxen,
Deir el-Medina . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 47 The
Temple of Dendur , completed by 10 BC,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 48 Illustration of various types of capitals, by
Karl Richard Lepsius (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 49 Egypt's population density (people per km
2 ) (from
Egypt )
Image 50 The
Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 51 Soad Hosny , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 52 Kushari , one of Egypt's national dishes (from
Egypt )
Image 54 Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world. (from
Egypt )
Image 58 Hatshepsut's trading expedition to the
Land of Punt (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 59 Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the
golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 60 Anubis , the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 61 Khafre enthroned (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 63 Naguib Mahfouz , the first Arabic-language writer to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature (from
Egypt )
Image 64 The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 65 Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from
Egypt )
Image 67 Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 68 Lower-class occupations (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 69 Female nationalists demonstrating in
Cairo , 1919 (from
Egypt )
Image 72 An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from
Egypt )
Image 73 Tanoura dancers performing in Wekalet El Ghoury, Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 75 The
Eastern Imperial Eagle is the national animal of Egypt. (from
Egypt )
Image 76 Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 78 The
Suez Canal (from
Egypt )
Image 79 Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of
Menna at
Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 80 Smart Village , a business district established in 2001 to facilitate the growth of high-tech businesses (from
Egypt )
Image 81 Tourists riding an
Arabian camel in front of
Pyramid of Khafre . The
Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from
Egypt )
Image 82 Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the delta (from
Egypt )
Image 83 The High Court of Justice in
Downtown Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 84 Cairo grew into a
metropolitan area with a population of over 20 million. (from
Egypt )
Image 85 A figure wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, most probably
Amenemhat II or
Senwosret II . It functioned as a divine guardian for the
imiut ; the divine kilt, suggests that the statuette was not merely a representation of the living ruler. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 86 The
Amr ibn al-As mosque in Cairo, recognised as the oldest in Africa (from
Egypt )
Image 87 Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from
Egypt )
Image 88 Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna,
c. 1400 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 89 The
Qattara Depression in Egypt's north west (from
Egypt )
Image 90 Arabic calligraphy has seen its golden age in
Cairo . This adornment and beads being sold in
Muizz Street (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 91 Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 92 The pharaoh was usually depicted wearing symbols of royalty and power. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 93 The halls of Karnak Temple are built with rows of large columns. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 94 The
Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 95 Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 96 The
Egyptian Museum of Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 97 President el-Sisi with US President
Joe Biden , 11 November 2022 (from
Egypt )
Image 98 Prominent Egyptian dissident
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in December 2021. (from
Egypt )
Image 99 Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from
Egypt )
Image 100 Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other
Kushite kings,
Kerma Museum (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 101 The "weighing of the heart" scene from the
Book of the Dead (from
Egypt )
Image 102 Egyptian
tomb models as funerary goods (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 103 Egyptian honour guard soldiers during a visit of U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen (from
Egypt )
Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt . Some scholars date his reign from 26 March 1186 to 15 April 1155 BC, and he considered to be the last great king of the New Kingdom .
His long reign saw the decline of Egyptian political and economic power, linked to a series of invasions and internal economic problems that also plagued pharaohs before him. This coincided with a decline in the cultural sphere of Ancient Egypt. (
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A bottle of Luxor Weizen, a wheat beer from the Luxor brand brewed by Egybev , and a bottle of Sakara Gold
Beer in Egypt has long held a significant role, and its presence in the country is thought to date back to the
Predynastic period . In
ancient Egypt wine was preferred by the upper class, whereas beer was a staple for working class Egyptians and a central part of their diet. Despite religious restrictions and conflicting views on alcohol after the
Muslim conquest of Egypt , the consumption of beer did not cease, and it still remains the most popular alcoholic beverage in the country by far, accounting for 54 percent of all alcohol consumption. (
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