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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Egypt \Egypt\ n.
a country at the northeastern corner of Africa. At one time
it was joined with Syria to form the United Arab Republic.
Syn: United Arab Republic.
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Egypt
n 1: a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab
Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization
that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC [syn: {Arab Republic
of Egypt}, {United Arab Republic}]
2: an ancient empire west of Israel; centered on the Nile River
and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described
in the Old Testament [syn: {Egyptian Empire}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Egypt
the land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of
which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in
Scripture.
The Egyptians belonged to the white race, and their original
home is still a matter of dispute. Many scholars believe that it
was in Southern Arabia, and recent excavations have shown that
the valley of the Nile was originally inhabited by a low-class
population, perhaps belonging to the Nigritian stock, before the
Egyptians of history entered it. The ancient Egyptian language,
of which the latest form is Coptic, is distantly connected with
the Semitic family of speech.
Egypt consists geographically of two halves, the northern
being the Delta, and the southern Upper Egypt, between Cairo and
the First Cataract. In the Old Testament, Northern or Lower
Egypt is called Mazor, "the fortified land" (Isa. 19:6; 37: 25,
where the A.V. mistranslates "defence" and "besieged places");
while Southern or Upper Egypt is Pathros, the Egyptian
Pa-to-Res, or "the land of the south" (Isa. 11:11). But the
whole country is generally mentioned under the dual name of
Mizraim, "the two Mazors."
The civilization of Egypt goes back to a very remote
antiquity. The two kingdoms of the north and south were united
by Menes, the founder of the first historical dynasty of kings.
The first six dynasties constitute what is known as the Old
Empire, which had its capital at Memphis, south of Cairo, called
in the Old Testament Moph (Hos. 9:6) and Noph. The native name
was Mennofer, "the good place."
The Pyramids were tombs of the monarchs of the Old Empire,
those of Gizeh being erected in the time of the Fourth Dynasty.
After the fall of the Old Empire came a period of decline and
obscurity. This was followed by the Middle Empire, the most
powerful dynasty of which was the Twelfth. The Fayyum was
rescued for agriculture by the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty; and
two obelisks were erected in front of the temple of the sun-god
at On or Heliopolis (near Cairo), one of which is still
standing. The capital of the Middle Empire was Thebes, in Upper
Egypt.
The Middle Empire was overthrown by the invasion of the
Hyksos, or shepherd princes from Asia, who ruled over Egypt,
more especially in the north, for several centuries, and of whom
there were three dynasties of kings. They had their capital at
Zoan or Tanis (now San), in the north-eastern part of the Delta.
It was in the time of the Hyksos that Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph
entered Egypt. The Hyksos were finally expelled about B.C. 1600,
by the hereditary princes of Thebes, who founded the Eighteenth
Dynasty, and carried the war into Asia. Canaan and Syria were
subdued, as well as Cyprus, and the boundaries of the Egyptian
Empire were fixed at the Euphrates. The Soudan, which had been
conquered by the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty, was again annexed
to Egypt, and the eldest son of the Pharaoh took the title of
"Prince of Cush."
One of the later kings of the dynasty, Amenophis IV., or
Khu-n-Aten, endeavoured to supplant the ancient state religion
of Egypt by a new faith derived from Asia, which was a sort of
pantheistic monotheism, the one supreme god being adored under
the image of the solar disk. The attempt led to religious and
civil war, and the Pharaoh retreated from Thebes to Central
Egypt, where he built a new capital, on the site of the present
Tell-el-Amarna. The cuneiform tablets that have been found there
represent his foreign correspondence (about B.C. 1400). He
surrounded himself with officials and courtiers of Asiatic, and
more especially Canaanitish, extraction; but the native party
succeeded eventually in overthrowing the government, the capital
of Khu-n-Aten was destroyed, and the foreigners were driven out
of the country, those that remained being reduced to serfdom.
The national triumph was marked by the rise of the Nineteenth
Dynasty, in the founder of which, Rameses I., we must see the
"new king, who knew not Joseph." His grandson, Rameses II.,
reigned sixty-seven years (B.C. 1348-1281), and was an
indefatigable builder. As Pithom, excavated by Dr. Naville in
1883, was one of the cities he built, he must have been the
Pharaoh of the Oppression. The Pharaoh of the Exodus may have
been one of his immediate successors, whose reigns were short.
Under them Egypt lost its empire in Asia, and was itself
attacked by barbarians from Libya and the north.
The Nineteenth Dynasty soon afterwards came to an end; Egypt
was distracted by civil war; and for a short time a Canaanite,
Arisu, ruled over it.
Then came the Twentieth Dynasty, the second Pharaoh of which,
Rameses III., restored the power of his country. In one of his
campaigns he overran the southern part of Palestine, where the
Israelites had not yet settled. They must at the time have been
still in the wilderness. But it was during the reign of Rameses
III. that Egypt finally lost Gaza and the adjoining cities,
which were seized by the Pulista, or Philistines.
After Rameses III., Egypt fell into decay. Solomon married the
daughter of one of the last kings of the Twenty-first Dynasty,
which was overthrown by Shishak I., the general of the Libyan
mercenaries, who founded the Twenty-second Dynasty (1 Kings
11:40; 14:25, 26). A list of the places he captured in Palestine
is engraved on the outside of the south wall of the temple of
Karnak.
In the time of Hezekiah, Egypt was conquered by Ethiopians
from the Soudan, who constituted the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. The
third of them was Tirhakah (2 Kings 19:9). In B.C. 674 it was
conquered by the Assyrians, who divided it into twenty
satrapies, and Tirhakah was driven back to his ancestral
dominions. Fourteen years later it successfully revolted under
Psammetichus I. of Sais, the founder of the Twenty-sixth
Dynasty. Among his successors were Necho (2 Kings 23:29) and
Hophra, or Apries (Jer. 37:5, 7, 11). The dynasty came to an end
in B.C. 525, when the country was subjugated by Cambyses. Soon
afterwards it was organized into a Persian satrapy.
The title of Pharaoh, given to the Egyptian kings, is the
Egyptian Per-aa, or "Great House," which may be compared to that
of "Sublime Porte." It is found in very early Egyptian texts.
The Egyptian religion was a strange mixture of pantheism and
animal worship, the gods being adored in the form of animals.
While the educated classes resolved their manifold deities into
manifestations of one omnipresent and omnipotent divine power,
the lower classes regarded the animals as incarnations of the
gods.
Under the Old Empire, Ptah, the Creator, the god of Memphis,
was at the head of the Pantheon; afterwards Amon, the god of
Thebes, took his place. Amon, like most of the other gods, was
identified with Ra, the sun-god of Heliopolis.
The Egyptians believed in a resurrection and future life, as
well as in a state of rewards and punishments dependent on our
conduct in this world. The judge of the dead was Osiris, who had
been slain by Set, the representative of evil, and afterwards
restored to life. His death was avenged by his son Horus, whom
the Egyptians invoked as their "Redeemer." Osiris and Horus,
along with Isis, formed a trinity, who were regarded as
representing the sun-god under different forms.
Even in the time of Abraham, Egypt was a flourishing and
settled monarchy. Its oldest capital, within the historic
period, was Memphis, the ruins of which may still be seen near
the Pyramids and the Sphinx. When the Old Empire of Menes came
to an end, the seat of empire was shifted to Thebes, some 300
miles farther up the Nile. A short time after that, the Delta
was conquered by the Hyksos, or shepherd kings, who fixed their
capital at Zoan, the Greek Tanis, now San, on the Tanic arm of
the Nile. All this occurred before the time of the new king
"which knew not Joseph" (Ex. 1:8). In later times Egypt was
conquered by the Persians (B.C. 525), and by the Greeks under
Alexander the Great (B.C. 332), after whom the Ptolemies ruled
the country for three centuries. Subsequently it was for a time
a province of the Roman Empire; and at last, in A.D. 1517, it
fell into the hands of the Turks, of whose empire it still forms
nominally a part. Abraham and Sarah went to Egypt in the time of
the shepherd kings. The exile of Joseph and the migration of
Jacob to "the land of Goshen" occurred about 200 years later. On
the death of Solomon, Shishak, king of Egypt, invaded Palestine
(1 Kings 14:25). He left a list of the cities he conquered.
A number of remarkable clay tablets, discovered at
Tell-el-Amarna in Upper Egypt, are the most important historical
records ever found in connection with the Bible. They most fully
confirm the historical statements of the Book of Joshua, and
prove the antiquity of civilization in Syria and Palestine. As
the clay in different parts of Palestine differs, it has been
found possible by the clay alone to decide where the tablets
come from when the name of the writer is lost. The inscriptions
are cuneiform, and in the Aramaic language, resembling Assyrian.
The writers are Phoenicians, Amorites, and Philistines, but in
no instance Hittites, though Hittites are mentioned. The tablets
consist of official dispatches and letters, dating from B.C.
1480, addressed to the two Pharaohs, Amenophis III. and IV., the
last of this dynasty, from the kings and governors of Phoenicia
and Palestine. There occur the names of three kings killed by
Joshua, Adoni-zedec, king of Jerusalem, Japhia, king of Lachish
(Josh. 10:3), and Jabin, king of Hazor (11:1); also the Hebrews
(Abiri) are said to have come from the desert.
The principal prophecies of Scripture regarding Egypt are
these, Isa. 19; Jer. 43: 8-13; 44:30; 46; Ezek. 29-32; and it
might be easily shown that they have all been remarkably
fulfilled. For example, the singular disappearance of Noph
(i.e., Memphis) is a fulfilment of Jer. 46:19, Ezek. 30:13.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Egypt, that troubles or oppresses; anguish
From CIA World Factbook 2002 [world02]:
Egypt
Introduction Egypt
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Background: Nominally independent from the UK in
1922, Egypt acquired full
sovereignty following World War II.
The completion of the Aswan High Dam
in 1971 and the resultant Lake
Nasser have altered the time-honored
place of the Nile river in the
agriculture and ecology of Egypt. A
rapidly growing population (the
largest in the Arab world), limited
arable land, and dependence on the
Nile all continue to overtax
resources and stress society. The
government has struggled to ready
the economy for the new millennium
through economic reform and massive
investment in communications and
physical infrastructure.
Geography Egypt
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Location: Northern Africa, bordering the
Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and
the Gaza Strip
Geographic coordinates: 27 00 N, 30 00 E
Map references: Africa
Area: total: 1,001,450 sq km
land: 995,450 sq km
water: 6,000 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly more than three times the
size of New Mexico
Land boundaries: total: 2,665 km
border countries: Gaza Strip 11 km,
Israel 266 km, Libya 1,115 km, Sudan
1,273 km
Coastline: 2,450 km
Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NM
territorial sea: 12 NM
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to
the depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
Climate: desert; hot, dry summers with
moderate winters
Terrain: vast desert plateau interrupted by
Nile valley and delta
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Qattara Depression -
133 m
highest point: Mount Catherine 2,629
m
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore,
phosphates, manganese, limestone,
gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc
Land use: arable land: 2.85%
permanent crops: 0.47%
other: 96.68% (1998 est.)
Irrigated land: 33,000 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent
earthquakes, flash floods,
landslides; hot, driving windstorm
called khamsin occurs in spring;
dust storms, sandstorms
Environment - current issues: agricultural land being lost to
urbanization and windblown sands;
increasing soil salination below
Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil
pollution threatening coral reefs,
beaches, and marine habitats; other
water pollution from agricultural
pesticides, raw sewage, and
industrial effluents; very limited
natural fresh water resources away
from the Nile which is the only
perennial water source; rapid growth
in population overstraining the Nile
and natural resources
Environment - international party to: Biodiversity, Climate
agreements: Change, Desertification, Endangered
Species, Environmental Modification,
Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea,
Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban,
Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution, Tropical Timber 83,
Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Climate
Change-Kyoto Protocol
Geography - note: controls Sinai Peninsula, only land
bridge between Africa and remainder
of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez
Canal, shortest sea link between
Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea;
size, and juxtaposition to Israel,
establish its major role in Middle
Eastern geopolitics; dependence on
upstream neighbors; dominance of
Nile basin issues; prone to influxes
of refugees
People Egypt
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Population: 70,712,345 (July 2002 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 33.96% (male 12,292,185;
female 11,721,469)
15-64 years: 62.18% (male
22,190,637; female 21,775,504)
65 years and over: 3.86% (male
1,191,091; female 1,541,459) (2002
est.)
Population growth rate: 1.66% (2002 est.)
Birth rate: 24.41 births/1,000 population (2002
est.)
Death rate: 7.58 deaths/1,000 population (2002
est.)
Net migration rate: -0.24 migrant(s)/1,000 population
(2002 est.)
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.77 male(s)/
female
total population: 1.02 male(s)/
female (2002 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 58.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2002
est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 64.05 years
female: 66.24 years (2002 est.)
male: 61.96 years
Total fertility rate: 2.99 children born/woman (2002 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.02% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/ NA
AIDS:
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA
Nationality: noun: Egyptian(s)
adjective: Egyptian
Ethnic groups: Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians,
Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek,
Nubian, Armenian, other European
(primarily Italian and French) 1%
Religions: Muslim (mostly Sunni) 94%, Coptic
Christian and other 6%
Languages: Arabic (official), English and
French widely understood by educated
classes
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read
and write
total population: 51.4%
male: 63.6%
female: 38.8% (1995 est.)
Government Egypt
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Country name: conventional long form: Arab
Republic of Egypt
conventional short form: Egypt
local short form: Misr
former: United Arab Republic (with
Syria)
local long form: Jumhuriyat Misr al-
Arabiyah
Government type: republic
Capital: Cairo
Administrative divisions: 26 governorates (muhafazat, singular
- muhafazah); Ad Daqahliyah, Al Bahr
al Ahmar, Al Buhayrah, Al Fayyum, Al
Gharbiyah, Al Iskandariyah, Al
Isma'iliyah, Al Jizah, Al Minufiyah,
Al Minya, Al Qahirah, Al Qalyubiyah,
Al Wadi al Jadid, Ash Sharqiyah, As
Suways, Aswan, Asyut, Bani Suwayf,
Bur Sa'id, Dumyat, Janub Sina', Kafr
ash Shaykh, Matruh, Qina, Shamal
Sina', Suhaj
Independence: 28 February 1922 (from UK)
National holiday: Revolution Day, 23 July (1952)
Constitution: 11 September 1971
Legal system: based on English common law, Islamic
law, and Napoleonic codes; judicial
review by Supreme Court and Council
of State (oversees validity of
administrative decisions); accepts
compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with
reservations
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and
compulsory
Executive branch: chief of state: President Mohammed
Hosni MUBARAK (since 14 October
1981)
head of government: Prime Minister
Atef Mohammed ABEID (since 5 October
1999)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the
president
elections: president nominated by
the People's Assembly for a six-year
term, the nomination must then be
validated by a national, popular
referendum; national referendum last
held 26 September 1999 (next to be
held NA October 2005); prime
minister appointed by the president
election results: national
referendum validated President
MUBARAK's nomination by the People's
Assembly to a fourth term
Legislative branch: bicameral system consists of the
People's Assembly or Majlis al-Sha'b
(454 seats; 444 elected by popular
vote, 10 appointed by the president;
members serve five-year terms) and
the Advisory Council or Majlis al-
Shura - which functions only in a
consultative role (264 seats; 176
elected by popular vote, 88
appointed by the president; members
serve NA-year terms)
elections: People's Assembly -
three-phase voting - last held 19
October, 29 October, 8 November 2000
(next to be held NA November 2005);
Advisory Council - last held 7 June
1995 (next to be held NA)
election results: People's Assembly
- percent of vote by party - NDP
88%, independents 8%, opposition 4%;
seats by party - NDP 398, NWP 7,
Tagammu 6, Nasserists 2, LSP 1,
independents 38, undecided 2;
Advisory Council - percent of vote
by party - NDP 99%, independents 1%;
seats by party - NA
Judicial branch: Supreme Constitutional Court
Political parties and leaders: Nasserist Arab Democratic Party or
Nasserists [Dia' al-din DAWUD];
National Democratic Party or NDP
[President Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK] -
governing party; National
Progressive Unionist Grouping or
Tagammu [Khalid MUHI AL-DIN]; New
Wafd Party or NWP [No'man GOMA];
Socialist Liberal Party or LSP
[leader NA]
note: formation of political parties
must be approved by the government
Political pressure groups and despite a constitutional ban against
leaders: religious-based parties, the
technically illegal Muslim
Brotherhood constitutes MUBARAK's
potentially most significant
political opposition; MUBARAK
tolerated limited political activity
by the Brotherhood for his first two
terms, but moved more aggressively
since then to block its influence;
civic society groups are sanctioned,
but constrained in practical terms;
trade unions and professional
associations are officially
sanctioned
International organization ABEDA, ACC, ACCT, AfDB, AFESD, AL,
participation: AMF, BSEC (observer), CAEU, CCC,
EBRD, ECA, ESCWA, FAO, G-15, G-19,
G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC,
ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS,
IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC,
IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM,
OAPEC, OAS (observer), OAU, OIC,
OSCE (partner), PCA, UN, UNAMSIL,
UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNITAR,
UNMIBH, UNMIK, UNMOP, UNOMIG, UNRWA,
UNTAET, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO,
WToO, WTrO
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador M.
Nabil FAHMY
chancery: 3521 International Court
NW, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: Chicago,
Houston, New York, and San Francisco
FAX: [1] (202) 244-4319
telephone: [1] (202) 895-5440
Diplomatic representation from the chief of mission: Ambassador C.
US: David WELCH (since 3 Aug. 2001)
embassy: 5 Latin America St., Garden
City, Cairo
mailing address: Unit 64900, APO AE
09839-4900
telephone: [20] (2) 797-3300
FAX: [20] (2) 797-3200
Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of red
(top), white, and black with the
national emblem (a shield
superimposed on a golden eagle
facing the hoist side above a scroll
bearing the name of the country in
Arabic) centered in the white band;
similar to the flag of Yemen, which
has a plain white band; also similar
to the flag of Syria, which has two
green stars, and to the flag of
Iraq, which has three green stars
(plus an Arabic inscription) in a
horizontal line centered in the
white band
Economy Egypt
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Economy - overview: Egypt improved its macroeconomic
performance throughout most of the
last decade by following IMF advice
on fiscal, monetary, and structural
reform policies. As a result, Cairo
managed to tame inflation, slash
budget deficits, and attract more
foreign investment. In the past
three years, however, the pace of
reform has slackened, and excessive
spending on national infrastructure
projects has widened budget deficits
again. Lower foreign exchange
earnings since 1998 resulted in
pressure on the Egyptian pound and
periodic dollar shortages. Monetary
pressures have increased since 11
September 2001 because of declines
in tourism, Suez canal tolls, and
exports, and Cairo has devalued the
pound several times in the past
year. The development of a gas
export market is a major bright spot
for future growth prospects.
GDP: purchasing power parity - $258
billion (2001 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 2.5% (2001 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,700
(2001 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 14%
industry: 30%
services: 56% (2001)
Population below poverty line: 22.9% (FY95/96 est.)
Household income or consumption by lowest 10%: 4.4%
percentage share: highest 10%: 25% (1995)
Distribution of family income - Gini 28.9 (1995)
index:
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.3% (2001)
Labor force: 20.6 million (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 29%, industry 22%,
services 49% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate: 12% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $21.5 billion
expenditures: $26.2 billion,
including capital expenditures of
$5.9 billion (2001)
Industries: textiles, food processing, tourism,
chemicals, hydrocarbons,
construction, cement, metals
Industrial production growth rate: 1.8% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production: 69.592 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 77.1%
hydro: 22.9%
other: 0% (2000)
nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption: 64.721 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products: cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans,
fruits, vegetables; cattle, water
buffalo, sheep, goats
Exports: $7.1 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
Exports - commodities: crude oil and petroleum products,
cotton, textiles, metal products,
chemicals
Exports - partners: EU 43% (Italy 18%, Germany 4%, UK
3.2%), US 15%, Middle East 11%,
Asian countries 9%, (2000)
Imports: $164 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs,
chemicals, wood products, fuels
Imports - partners: EU 36% (Germany 8%, Italy 8%, France
6%), US 18%, Asian countries 13%, ,
Middle East 6% (2000)
Debt - external: $29 billion (2001 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $2.25 billion (1999)
Currency: Egyptian pound (EGP)
Currency code: EGP
Exchange rates: Egyptian pounds per US dollar -
market rate - 4.5000 (January 2002),
4.4900 (2001), 3.6900 (2000), 3.4050
(1999), 3.3880 (1998), 3.3880 (1997)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
Communications Egypt
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Telephones - main lines in use: 3,971,500 (December 1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 380,000 (1999)
Telephone system: general assessment: large system;
underwent extensive upgrading during
1990s and is reasonably modern;
Internet access and cellular service
are available
domestic: principal centers at
Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah,
Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are
connected by coaxial cable and
microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth
stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean and Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat,
and 1 Inmarsat; 5 coaxial submarine
cables; tropospheric scatter to
Sudan; microwave radio relay to
Israel; a participant in Medarabtel
and a signatory to Project Oxygen (a
global submarine fiber-optic cable
system)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 14,
shortwave 3 (1999)
Radios: 20.5 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 98 (September 1995)
Televisions: 7.7 million (1997)
Internet country code: .eg
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 50 (2000)
Internet users: 560,000 (2001)
Transportation Egypt
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Railways: total: 4,955 km
standard gauge: 4,955 km 1,435-
m gauge (42 km electrified; 1,560 km
double-track) (2000 est.)
Highways: total: 64,000 km
paved: 50,000 km
unpaved: 14,000 km (1996)
Waterways: 3,500 km
note: including the Nile, Lake
Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo Waterway,
and numerous smaller canals in the
delta; Suez Canal (193.5 km
including approaches), used by
oceangoing vessels drawing up to
16.1 m of water
Pipelines: crude oil 1,171 km; petroleum
products 596 km; natural gas 460 km
Ports and harbors: Alexandria, Al Ghardaqah, Aswan,
Asyut, Bur Safajah, Damietta, Marsa
Matruh, Port Said, Suez
Merchant marine: total: 175 ships (1,000 GRT or over)
totaling 1,331,186 GRT/1,987,964 DWT
ships by type: bulk 23, cargo 58,
container 2, liquefied gas 1,
passenger 61, petroleum tanker 14,
roll on/roll off 13, short-sea
passenger 3
note: includes some foreign-owned
ships registered here as a flag of
convenience:, Denmark 1, Germany 1,
Greece 6, Lebanon 3, Monaco 1,
Ukraine 1 (2002 est.)
Airports: 92 (2001)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 72
over 3,047 m: 13
2,438 to 3,047 m: 37
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 3 (2001)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 17
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 20
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
under 914 m: 10 (2001)
914 to 1,523 m: 7
Heliports: 2 (2001)
Military Egypt
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Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense
Command
Military manpower - military age: 20 years of age (2002 est.)
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 19,030,030 (2002
est.)
Military manpower - fit for military males age 15-49: 12,320,902 (2002
service: est.)
Military manpower - reaching military males: 712,983 (2002 est.)
age annually:
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $4.04 billion (FY99/00)
Military expenditures - percent of 4.1% (FY99/00)
GDP:
Transnational Issues Egypt
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Disputes - international: Egypt and Sudan each claim to
administer triangular areas which
extend north and south of the 1899
Treaty boundary along the 22nd
Parallel (in the north, the "Hala'ib
Triangle", is the largest with
20,580 sq km); in 2001, the two
states agreed to discuss an "area of
integration" and withdraw military
forces in the overlapping areas
Illicit drugs: transit point for Southwest Asian
and Southeast Asian heroin and opium
moving to Europe, Africa, and the
US; transit stop for Nigerian
couriers
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Egypt, AR (town, FIPS 20920)
Location: 35.86665 N, 90.95288 W
Population (1990): 123 (57 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Egypt, MS
Zip code(s): 38860
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Egypt, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 101
Housing Units (2000): 51
Land area (2000): 0.368005 sq. miles (0.953129 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.368005 sq. miles (0.953129 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20920
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.867472 N, 90.945372 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Egypt, AR
Egypt
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