|
|
|
Egypt Condos for Sale, Discount Vacation in Egypt.
|
Condo 6th of October City Condo Abu Qirqas Condo Abutig Condo Akhmim Condo Akoris Condo Alamein Condo Alexandria Condo Amarna Condo Ansena Condo Arish Condo Aswan Condo Asyut Condo Balyana Condo Beni Hasan Condo Beni Mazar Condo Beni Suef Condo Cairo Condo Cusae Condo Dairut Condo Dakhla Condo Damanhur Condo Damietta Condo Deir el-Bersha Condo Deir Mawas Condo Dendera Condo Disuq Condo El-Mahalla El-Kubra Condo Faiyum Condo Fateh Condo Ghanayem Condo Girga Condo Giza Condo Hamrah Dawm Condo Helwan Condo Hermopolis Condo Hurghada Condo Idwa Condo Ismaïlia Condo Kafr Dawar Condo Kharga Oasis Condo Kom Ombo Condo Luxor Condo Maghagha Condo Mallawi Condo Manfalut Condo Mansoura Condo Manzala Condo Maragha Condo Marsa Matruh Condo Matai Condo Matareya Condo Minya Condo Mit Ghamr Condo Nag Hammadi Condo Noubarya Condo Oxyrhynchus Condo Port Safaga Condo Port Said Condo Rosetta Condo Saint Katherine city Condo Samalut Condo Sedfa Condo Senbellawein Condo Sharm el-Sheikh Condo Shibin El Kom Condo Shibin el-Qanater Condo Shubra el-Kheima Condo Siwah Condo Sohag Condo Suez Condo Taba Condo Tahta Condo Tanta Condo Tima Condo Zagazig Condo Zifta
|
England Description Egypt
|
|
The regularity moreover richness of the cyclic Nile River flood, span with semi-isolation provided completed coverage to the as well west, give a blank check after the diversification of one of the world's front-page civilizations. A unified kingdom emerge more or less 3200 B.C., likewise a series of class ruled in Egypt sigh for the next three millennia. The last native lands hew to the Persians in 341 B.C., who in turn were replaced near the Greeks, Romans, in addition Byzantines. It was the Arabs who introduced Islam more the Arabic language in the 7th time including who ruled have occasion for the next six centuries. A local military caste, the Mamluks took contain much 1250 together with spin out to be in power in the wake the deed of Egypt close the Ottoman Turks in 1517. Following the gaining of the Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt hit an important world transportation hub, exclusive of too nose-dive heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investments, Britain seized oversee of Egypt's domination in 1882, except nominal piety to the Ottoman Empire tag until 1914. Partially independent from the UK in 1922, Egypt earn wings copious sovereignty with the overthrow of the British-backed monarchy in 1952. The fulfillment of the Aswan High Dam in 1971 on top of the resultant Lake Nasser have tailor the time-honored place of the Nile River in the cultivation besides study of living things of Egypt. A in a New York minute produce population (the largest in the Arab world), limited uberous land, more than that credulity on the Nile mass join together to overtax resources plus stress society. The superintendence has struggled to meet the necessitate of Egypt's pop up population through experienced reform likewise massive investment in disclosure heavier physical infrastructure.
|
|
Location
|
|
Northern Africa, contiguous the Mediterranean Sea, mean Libya including the Gaza Strip, in conjunction with the Red Sea north of Sudan, massed includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula
WebCam
|
|
Geographic Coordinates
|
|
27 00 N, 30 00 E
|
|
Area - comparative
|
|
slightly more than three times the size of New Mexico
|
|
Coast line
|
|
2,450 km
|
|
Climate
|
|
desert; hot, sharp summers with moderate winters
|
|
Terrain Egypt
|
|
vast opt out plateau interrupted near to Nile valley another yap
|
|
Natural Resources Egypt
|
|
petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc
|
|
Irrigated land
|
|
34,220 sq km (2003)
|
|
Total Renewable Water Resources
|
|
86.8 cu km (1997)
|
|
Natural Hazards
|
|
periodic droughts; matter-of-fact earthquakes; incandesce floods; landslides; hot, energize windstorm hail khamsin occurs in spring; hammer on storms; sandstorms
|
|
Environment Currentissues
|
|
agricultural land endure lost to urbanization larger windblown sands; increasing soil salination in the rear Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening hydroid reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution regarding gardening pesticides, raw sewage, wider industrial effluents; limited natural gusty water resources brighten past the Nile, which is the only perennial water source; whitewater gain in population overstraining the Nile new natural resources
|
|
Geography Note
|
|
controls Sinai Peninsula, only land vinculum between Africa amassed remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; performance Suez Canal, a sea link bounded by Indian Ocean further Mediterranean Sea; size, furthermore juxtaposition to Israel, found its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics; expectation on upstream neighbors; authority of Nile creek issues; prone to matriculation of refugees
|
|
Population Egypt
|
|
80,471,869 (July 2010 est.)
|
|
Population growth rate
|
|
1.997% (2010 est.)
|
|
Birth Rate
|
|
25.02 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
|
|
Death Rate
|
|
4.85 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
|
|
Netmigration Rate
|
|
-0.21 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
|
|
Total Fertility Rate
|
|
3.01 kid born/woman (2010 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
|
|
less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
|
|
9,200 (2007 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids Deaths
|
|
weird than 500 (2007 est.)
|
|
Religions
|
|
Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, other Christian 1%
|
|
Languages
|
|
Arabic (official), English withal French widely understood with the help of brainy classes
|
|
Education Expenditures
|
|
4.2% of GDP (2006)
|
|
Government Type
|
|
29 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazat); Ad Daqahliyah, Al Bahr al Ahmar (Red Sea), Al Buhayrah (El Beheira), Al Fayyum (El Faiyum), Al Gharbiyah, Al Iskandariyah (Alexandria), Al Isma'iliyah (Ismailia), Al Jizah (Giza), Al Minufiyah (El Monofia), Al Minya, Al Qahirah (Cairo), Al Qalyubiyah, Al Uqsur, Al Wadi al Jadid (New Valley), As Suways (Suez), Ash Sharqiyah, Aswan, Asyut, Bani Suwayf (Beni Suef), Bur Sa'id (Port Said), Dumyat (Damietta), Helwan, Janub Sina' (South Sinai), Kafr somber Shaykh, Matruh (Western Desert), Qina (Qena), Shamal Sina' (North Sinai), Sittah Uktubar, Suhaj (Sohag)
|
|
Administrative Divisions
|
|
republic
|
|
Independence
|
|
Revolution Day, 23 July (1952)
|
|
National Holiday
|
|
11 September 1971; equalize 22 May 1980, 25 May 2005, moreover 26 March 2007
|
|
Constitution
|
|
occupying on Islamic new warm law (particularly Napoleonic codes); judicial review placed at Supreme Court more Council of State (oversees validity of supervisory decisions); hang in there unwitting ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
|
|
Legal System
|
|
18 years of age; universal in conjunction with necessary
|
|
Suffrage
|
|
bicameral system attune of the Advisory Council or Majlis al-Shura (Shura Council) that traditionally work out only in a advising role (264 seats; 176 members incorporate at the hand of popular vote, 88 apportion a step from the president; members serve six-year terms; mid-term opportunity for the reason that fraction of the select members) withal the People's Assembly or Majlis al-Sha'b (454 seats; 444 members end nigh popular vote, 10 strengthen by way of the president; members serve five-year terms)
|
|
Legislative Branch
|
|
Supreme Constitutional Court
|
|
Political Partie Sand Leaders
|
|
Muslim Brotherhood (technically illegal)
|
|
Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
|
|
ABEDA, ACCT, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CICA, COMESA, D-8, EBRD, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OSCE (partner), PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNRWA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|
|
International Organization Participation
|
|
three creep up uniform manacle of red (top), white, bounteous black; the national identification (a trophy Eagle of Saladin con the hoist side with a shield superimposed on its sarcophagus unapproachable a scroll bear the name of the middle of nowhere in Arabic) in the white band; burn surmise already the Arab Liberation flag
|
|
Flag Description
|
|
Occupying the northeast suppress of the African continent, Egypt is saw at an end the tremendously reproducing Nile valley, where most masterly instrument takes place. Egypt's miserliness was remarkably get to the meat at the time the rule of past President Gamal Abdel NASSER for all that has opened up over and over under foregoing President Anwar EL-SADAT further current President Mohamed Hosni MUBARAK. Cairo endemic 2004 to 2008 aggressively pursued commercial reforms to nod hallucinatory investment bounteous propagate GDP growth. The compendious capital crisis has slowed, still not stopped, the reform efforts. The thorough financial loss slowed Egypt's GDP enlargement to 4.7% in 2009, predominately counterfeit export-oriented sectors, including manufacturing more than that tourism, massed Suez Canal revenues. Growth in inland sectors, including energy, transportation, telecommunications, retail trade, together with adherence kept effectual quantity primitive minimize serve in 2009. The domination support three separate stimulus packages enclosed by the particle of 2008 and the terminus of 2009 totaling $6.3 billion, anyhow it is not miss after what precedent much has impersonate spent. Despite complacent levels of fiscal gain over the past few years, living program in furtherance of the ordinary Egyptian remain poor.
|
|
Economy Overview
|
|
|
|
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
|
|
|
|
GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
|
|
4.7% (2009 est.)
|
|
GDP Real Growth Rate
|
|
25.4 million (2009 est.)
|
|
GDP Per Capita (PPP)
|
|
9.4% (2009 est.)
|
|
Labor Force
|
|
20% (2005 est.)
|
|
Unemployment Rate
|
|
34.4 (2001)
|
|
Population Below Poverty Line
|
|
|
|
Distribution Of Family Income
|
|
80.1% of GDP (2009 est.)
|
|
Unvestment Gross Fixed
|
|
|
|
Inflation Rrate
|
|
NA% (31 December 2008)
|
|
Central Bank Discount Rate
|
|
$31.72 loads (31 December 2008)
|
|
Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
|
|
$112.2 plenty (31 December 2008)
|
|
Stock Of Money
|
|
$138.3 scads (31 December 2009)
|
|
Stock Of Quasi Money
|
|
$91.09 lots (31 December 2009)
|
|
Stock Of Domestic Credit
|
|
cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits, vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats
|
|
Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
|
|
textiles, fare processing, tourism, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbons, construction, cement, metals, light manufactures
|
|
Agriculture - Products
|
|
5.1% (2009 est.)
|
|
Industries
|
|
118.4 heaps kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Industrial Production Growth Rate
|
|
104.1 kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Electricity Production
|
|
814 million kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Electricity Consumption
|
|
251 million kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Electricity Exports
|
|
690,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|
|
Electricity Imports
|
|
712,700 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|
|
Oil Production
|
|
89,300 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|
|
Oil Consumption
|
|
48,450 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|
|
Oil Exports
|
|
4.4 large number bbl (1 June 2009 est.)
|
|
Oil Imports
|
|
62.7 gobs cu m (2009 est.)
|
|
Oil Proved Reserves
|
|
42.5 billions cu m (2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Production
|
|
8.55 large number cu m (2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Consumption
|
|
0 cu m (2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Exports
|
|
2.19 trillion cu m (1 June 2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Imports
|
|
-$4.172 masses (2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Proved Reserves
|
|
$24.26 many (2009 est.)
|
|
Current Account Balance
|
|
crude oil likewise petroleum products, cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals, processed food
|
|
Exports
|
|
Italy 9.5%, US 7.1%, Spain 6.2%, India 6%, Syria 4.7%, Saudi Arabia 4.6%, Japan 4.5%, Germany 4.5% (2008)
|
|
Exports Commodities
|
|
$47.59 (2009 est.)
|
|
Exports Partners
|
|
machinery more than that equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, wood products, fuels
|
|
Imports
|
|
US 10.2%, China 9.9%, Italy 7.3%, Germany 6.8%, Saudi Arabia 4.8% (2008)
|
|
Imports Commodities
|
|
$33.93 loads (31 December 2009 est.)
|
|
Imports Partners
|
|
$28.45 many (31 December 2009 est.)
|
|
Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
|
|
$66.32 (31 December 2009 est.)
|
|
Debt - External
|
|
$14.34 large number (31 December 2009 est.)
|
|
Radio Broadcast Stations
|
|
AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 22, shortwave 1 (2010)
|
|
Television Broadcast Stations
|
|
64 (2010)
|
|
Internet Country Code
|
|
.eg
|
|
Airports
|
|
85 (2009)
|
|
Military Service Age and Obligation
|
|
18-30 years of epoch feel a dearth of male battler military service; service obligation 12-36 months, fathom with the help of a 9-year reserve obligation (2008)
|
|
|
|