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Statute: Republic
Surface: 1 001 449 km²
Population: 66 050 000 inhabitants
Density: 65.95 hab./km²
Official language: Arab
Spoken language: Arab
Religions: Islam (89 %)
Currency: Deliver Egyptian
GDP: 1 284 billion $US
Capital: Cairo
Principal cities: Alexandria, Ismaïlia, Gîza, Saïd Port, Assiout, Helwân, Tanta, El Mahlla el Kubra, Zagazig, El Mansoura, Suez, Aswan
Countries bordering: Libya, Israel, Sudan
Climax: Jabal Katrînah 2 642 m
PNB/habitant: 1 290 $.
Tourism: 3,8 foreign visitor and tourist million brought back 3,8 billion $ of currencies in 1998 (tourism underwent a fall of frequentation following the attacks having aimed at foreigners).
Communications and services:
- national Company :EgyptAir
- Principal international airports: Héliopolis it Cairo (7,2 million passengers in 1998 and 191 000 T of freight, 2nd African rank), Aswan (more than 1,2
million passengers in 1998, 13th rank of the continent), Louxor (more than 1,1 million in 1998, in spite of the fall of traffic caused by the attack of 1997), Alexandria, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh; in construction, Marsa Alam which will serve the cities of the Red Sea.
- 3 significant seaports: Alexandria (20,4 million T handled in 1998, 5th African rank), Port-Saïd and Suez (terminal oil).
- Fleet of more than 440 ships.
- 3 500 km of inland waterways, of which the Nile, the lake Nasser, water ways of the delta and Suez Canal (368,7 million T transported by the channel in 1997); but the rights of traffic on this one decrease in front of the competition of the pipelines and the supertankers passing by the Cape of Good Hope, and a diversification of the activities is in project.
- Approximately 4 800 km of railroad
- 64 000 km of roads, with including approximately 50 000 covered.
- CarPark (1997): 30 vehicles for 1000 inhabitants.
- Telephone (1997): 56 principal lines for 1 000 inhabitants. (development of the portable telephone).
- Television (1997): 127 stations for 1 000 inhabitants.