In the background is the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Cheops. Islam is state religion and controls many aspects of social life.Īerial view of the Giza Pyramids. Spoken language is Modern Standard Arabic the colloquial language is the Egyptian-Arabic dialect (Masri).Įgypt has the largest Muslim population in the Arab world an estimated 85-90% of the population is Sunni Muslim, 10–15% are Coptic Christians. With 102.2 million inhabitants (2021), Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world. Only an estimated 6 to 7% of the territory of Egypt is inhabited.
The country's main population is concentrated on the alluvial plains of the Nile Valley, the Nile Delta, the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern coastal areas of the Red Sea. Large parts of the country are covered by the sparsely populated desert areas of the Eastern Sahara. The Arab Republic of Egypt (its official name) covers an area of 1 million km², which is about twice the size of France or more than twice the size of the US State of California. From 1958 until 1961, Egypt was united with Syria as the United Arab Republic. Egypt shares maritime borders with Cyprus, Turkey and Greece in the Mediterranean Sea, and with Jordan and Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea. It is bordered by Libya in the west, the Palestinian territory (Gaza Strip) and Israel in the northeast, and Sudan in the south. The country borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea to the east. Destination Egypt, a Nations Online profile of the transcontinental country situated in northeastern Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in Western Asia (Middle East).
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