Egypt

Egypt is known for its world-famous pyramids, mummies, temples, art, churches, mosques, bustling cities, friendly people, and hieroglyphics, Egypt is considered a cradle of civilisation and has one of the longest histories of any country in the world.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Cairo and Alexandria.

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is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both and the .

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is Egypt's second largest city, its largest seaport, and the country's window onto the Mediterranean Sea. The city is a faded shadow of its former glorious cosmopolitan self, but still worth a visit for its many cultural attractions – particularly the new Library of – and still-palpable glimpses of its past.

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is a city in . had a population of 284,952 in 2023, with an area of 43.0 km2 and is the capital of the . Nicknamed the City of a Hundred Gates or the City of the Sun, formerly known as .

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.

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is the northern part of Egypt, containing the Nile Delta, and . It's not a defined region or province, just a convenient grouping for travel purposes, and with a high proportion of Egypt's top sights.

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is a region of the Nile Valley in Egypt, between and and the historical region of Lower , characterised by a number of ancient settlements and temple towns that draw thousands of travellers every year.

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is an extensive region of Egypt, extending through the Nile River valley, roughly between the cities of and Qus.

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The Peninsula, often shortened to is the easternmost part of Egypt between the Mediterranean and the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, both forks of the Red Sea.

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The is a region of eastern Egypt, along the 800 km western shore of that sea, from Port Suez in the north to the Sudanese border in the south.

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The is part of the Sahara Desert and occupies all of Egypt west of the fertile strip of the Nile to the border with Libya. It is utterly barren, except for six oases, described here.
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Egypt

  • Type: Country with 100,000,000 residents
  • Description: country in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia
  • Also known as: “Ägyptn”, “Ai-ki̍p A-la-pek Kiōng-hô-kok”, “Aigyptos”, “Al Iqlīm al Janūbī”, “Al Iqlīm al Mişrī”, “Al Jumhūrīyah al ‘Arabīyah al Muttaḩidah”, “Al Jumhūrīyah al Miṣrīyah”, “Arab Rep. Egypt”, “Arab Republic of Egypt”, “Araba Respubliko Egiptio”, “Araba Respubliko Egiptujo”, “Arabeh Axkayotl tlen Egiptoh”, “Arabesch Republik Ägypten”, “Arabesch Republik Egypten”, “Arabische Republiek Egypte”, “Arabische Republik Ägypten”, “Arabrepubliken Egypten”, “Arabska Republika Egiptu”, “Araobische Republiek Ehypte”, “Cộng hoà Ả Rập Ai Cập”, “Cộng hòa Ả Rập Ai Cập”, “Cộng hoà Ai Cập”, “Cộng hòa Ai Cập”, “Den arabiske republikken Egypt”, “Eajipt”, “eg”, “EG”, “Ég.”, “Eghjittu”, “Egippta arábarepublijkka”, “Egiptan Arabine Tazovaldkund”, “Egiptan Tazovaldkund”, “Egiptoh Axkayotl”, “Egiptoh Tlalli”, “EGY”, “Egyiptomi Arab Köztársaság”, “Egypt arabitäsiväldi”, “Egypta arábadásseváldi”, “Egyptin arabitasavalta”, “Egyptin tasavalta”, “Egyptská arabská republika”, “Egyypt araabtääʹssväʹldd”, “Ejypt”, “El Masr”, “El Qutr el Masri”, “Erab Repablik a‘ Ejiipt”, “Iji̱p”, “Jumhūrīyat Mişr al ‘Arabīyah”, “Ma̱sa̱r”, “Masiriq”, “Mishr”, “Misir Ərəb Respublikası”, “Misi̱ri”, “Misiriq”, “Mişr”, “Rep. Egypt”, “Reprùbbigga Àraba d’Egittu”, “Repubblica Araba d’Egitto”, “Repubblika Għarbija tal-Eġittu”, “Repubblika tal-Eġittu”, “Republic of Egypt”, “República Àrab d’Egipte”, “Republica Àraba d’Egittu”, “República Árabe de Egipto”, “República Árabe de Exipto”, “Republica Arabe do Egipto”, “República Árabe do Egipto”, “Republica Arabe do Egito”, “República Árabe do Egito”, “República d’Egipte”, “Republik Ägypten”, “Republik Arab Mesir”, “Republik Egypten”, “Republik Mesir”, “République arabe d’Égypte”, “Res publica Arabica Aegypti”, “Respubliko Egiptio”, “Respubliko Egiptujo”, “Ripublica Àraba d’Eghjittu”, “Stato dell’Africa settentionale”, “United Arab Republic”, “yn Eajipt”, “Yr Aipht”, “Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Αιγύπτου”, “Арабонь Республикась Эгипт”, “Арабска република Египет”, “Арабская Республика Египет”, “Арабська Республіка Єгипет”, “Арапска Република Египет”, “АРЕ”, “Мисир Араб Республикасы”, “Мысыр Араб Республикасы”, “Република Египет”, “Эгіпэт”, “ايجپٽ”, “جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة”, “جُمهورِيةُ مِصرَ العَرَبيةِ”, “جمهورية مصر العربيه”, “مسر”, “مه‌صه‌ر”, “ዓረባዊት ሪፓብሊክ ግብጺ”, “મિસર”, “ඊජිප්තු අරාබි ජනරජය”, “ᨆᨗᨔᨗᨑᨗ”, “애급”, “ミスライム”, “ミスル”, “埃”, “埃国”, “阿拉伯埃及共和国”, and “阿拉伯埃及共和國”
  • Languages: Arabic, English, and French
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, transcontinental country, Mediterranean country, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
26.71° or 26° 42′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
30.23° or 30° 13′ 48″ east
Population
100,000,000
Area
1,001,450 km² (386,662 miles²)
Elevation
199 metres (653 feet)
Capital
Currency
Pound (EGP)
Phone code
20
Internet domain
.eg
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424316018
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
357994
Wiki­data ID
Q79
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Egypt” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Мсыр”
  • Achinese: “Meusé”
  • Adyghe: “Мысыр”
  • Afrikaans: “Egipte”
  • Akan: “Nisrim”
  • Albanian: “Egjipt”
  • Albanian: “Egjipti”
  • Algerian Arabic: “ماصر”
  • Amharic: “ግብጽ”
  • Amharic: “ግብፅ”
  • Amis: “Egypt”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αἴγυπτος”
  • Angika: “मिस्र”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية مصر العربية”
  • Arabic: “مصر”
  • Aragonese: “Echipto”
  • Armenian: “Եգիպտոս”
  • Arpitan: “Èg·ipte”
  • Arpitan: “Ègipta”
  • Assamese: “ইজিপ্ত”
  • Asturian: “Exiptu”
  • Atayal: “Egypt”
  • Avaric: “Египет”
  • Awadhi: “मिस्र”
  • Aymara: “Iqiptu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Misir”
  • Balinese: “Mesir”
  • Bambara: “Eziputi”
  • Bambara: “Misra”
  • Banjar: “Mesir”
  • Bashkir: “Мысыр”
  • Basque: “Egipto”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Mesir”
  • Batak Toba: “Misir”
  • Bavarian: “Egyptn”
  • Belarusian: “Егіпет”
  • Belarusian: “Эгіпет”
  • Bengali: “মিশর”
  • Betawi: “Mesir”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिस्र”
  • Bishnupriya: “মিশর”
  • Bislama: “Ijip”
  • Bosnian: “Egipat”
  • Breton: “Egipt”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨔᨗᨑᨗ”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨙᨔᨗᨑ”
  • Bulgarian: “Египет”
  • Burmese: “အီဂျစ်”
  • Burmese: “အီဂျစ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Egipte”
  • Cebuano: “Ehipto”
  • Central Bikol: “Ehipto”
  • Central Kanuri: “Egypt”
  • Central Kurdish: “میسر”
  • Chamorro: “Ehiptu”
  • Chavacano: “Egipto”
  • Chechen: “Мисар”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᏥᏈᎢ”
  • Cheyenne: “Egypt”
  • Chinese: “Āijí”
  • Chinese: “埃及”
  • Church Slavic: “Єгѷптъ”
  • Chuvash: “Египет”
  • Cornish: “Ejyp”
  • Corsican: “Egittu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mısır”
  • Croatian: “Egipat”
  • Czech: “Egypt”
  • Dagbani: “Egypt”
  • Danish: “Ægypten”
  • Danish: “Egypten”
  • Dhivehi: “މިޞްރު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mısır”
  • Dotyali: “इजिप्ट”
  • Dutch: “Egypte”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨི་ཇིབཊ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨི་ཇིབཊ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Египет”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مصر”
  • Erzya: “Египет Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Egiptio”
  • Esperanto: “Egipto”
  • Esperanto: “Egiptujo”
  • Estonian: “Egiptus”
  • Ewe: “Edzipti”
  • Ewe: “Egipte”
  • Ewe: “Egypte nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Egitu”
  • Farefare: “Egypt”
  • Faroese: “Egyptaland”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Egypt”
  • Fijian: “Ijipita”
  • Fijian: “Ijipta”
  • Finnish: “Egypti”
  • French: “Égypte”
  • Friulian: “Egjit”
  • Fulah: “Ejipt”
  • Fulah: “Misra”
  • Gagauz: “Egipet”
  • Gagauz: “Mısır”
  • Galician: “Exipto”
  • Gan Chinese: “埃及”
  • Ganda: “Misiri”
  • Georgian: “ეგვიპტე”
  • German: “Ägypten”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Egypt”
  • Gilaki: “مصر”
  • Goan Konkani: “Ejipt”
  • Goan Konkani: “ईजिप्त”
  • Goan Konkani: “एजिप्त”
  • Goan Konkani: “मिस्र”
  • Gorontalo: “Mesir”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍅𐍀𐍄𐌰𐌿”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍅𐍀𐍄𐌿𐍃”
  • Greek: “Αίγυπτος”
  • Guarani: “Ehipto”
  • Guarani: “Ehíto”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Léjip”
  • Gujarati: “ઇજિપ્ત”
  • Haitian: “Ejip”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Âi-khi̍p”
  • Hausa: “Misira”
  • Hausa: “Misra”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Aikupika”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAikupika”
  • Hebrew: “מצרים”
  • Hindi: “मिस्त्र”
  • Hindi: “मिस्र”
  • Hungarian: “Egyiptom”
  • Iban: “Ejip”
  • Icelandic: “Egyptaland”
  • Ido: “Egiptia”
  • Igbo: “Egypt”
  • Igbo: “Ịjịpt”
  • Iloko: “Ehipto”
  • Iloko: “Ehípto”
  • Inari Sami: “Egypt”
  • Indonesian: “Mesir”
  • Ingush: “Мисаре”
  • Interlingua: “Egypto”
  • Interlingue: “Egiptia”
  • Inupiaq: “Masuġaq”
  • Irish: “an Éigipt”
  • Irish: “An Éigipt”
  • Italian: “Egitto”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Iijip”
  • Japanese: “Ejiputo”
  • Japanese: “エジプト・アラブ共和国”
  • Japanese: “エジプト”
  • Javanese: “Mesir”
  • Jèrriais: “Êgypte”
  • Kabiyè: “Egipiti”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Ejitu”
  • Kabyle: “Maṣer”
  • Kalaallisut: “Egypt”
  • Kalaallisut: “Egypten”
  • Kalmyk: “Иҗибдин Араб Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mısır”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мисир”
  • Karekare: “Masàr”
  • Kashmiri: “مِسٔر”
  • Kashmiri: “مِصر”
  • Kashubian: “Egipt”
  • Kazakh: “Мысыр”
  • Khmer: “អេហ្ស៊ីប”
  • Kikuyu: “Egypt”
  • Kikuyu: “Misri”
  • Kildin Sami: “Египпт”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Misiri”
  • Kirghiz: “Египет”
  • Kirghiz: “Мисир”
  • Komering: “Mosir”
  • Komi: “Египет Араб Республика”
  • Kongo: “Misiri”
  • Korean: “에짚트”
  • Korean: “이집트”
  • Kotava: “Misra”
  • Kurdish: “Misir”
  • Kurdish: “میسر”
  • Ladin: “Egit”
  • Ladino: “Ayifto”
  • Lak: “Мисри”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເອຢິບ”
  • Lao: “ອີຢິບ”
  • Latgalian: “Egipts”
  • Latin: “Aegyptus”
  • Latvian: “Ēģipte”
  • Lezghian: “Мисри”
  • Ligurian: “Egitto”
  • Limburgan: “Egypte”
  • Lingala: “Ejipte”
  • Lingala: “Ezípite”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Misre”
  • Literary Chinese: “埃及”
  • Lithuanian: “Egiptas”
  • Livvi: “Jegiptu”
  • Lojban: “misrygu’e”
  • Lombard: “Egit”
  • Low German: “Ägypten”
  • Low German: “Egypte”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Egyptojska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mushidi”
  • Lule Sami: “Egippta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Egypten”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Eghiptu”
  • Macedonian: “Египет”
  • Madurese: “Mesir”
  • Magahi: “मिस्र”
  • Maithili: “मिस्र”
  • Malagasy: “Ejipta”
  • Malagasy: “Ejypta”
  • Malay: “Mesir”
  • Malay: “مصر”
  • Malayalam: “ഈജിപ്ത്”
  • Malayalam: “ഈജിപ്റ്റ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഈജിപ്റ്റ്‌”
  • Maltese: “Eġittu”
  • Maltese: “l-Eġittu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯖꯤꯞ”
  • Manx: “yn Egypt”
  • Manx: “Yn Egypt”
  • Maori: “Īhipa”
  • Marathi: “इजिप्त”
  • Mazanderani: “مصر”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “مصر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ăi-gĭk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ai-ki̍p”
  • Minangkabau: “Mesir”
  • Mingrelian: “ეგვიპტე”
  • Mirandese: “Eigito”
  • Moksha: “Эгипт”
  • Mongolian: “Египет”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مصر”
  • Mossi: “Egypt”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߖ߭ߌߔߑߕ”
  • Nauru: “Idjipt”
  • Navajo: “Ahidiitłʼintsoh Daʼííłʼíní Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Egitte”
  • Neapolitan: “Naggitto”
  • Nepali: “इजिप्ट”
  • Newari: “मिस्र”
  • Nias: “Mesir”
  • Nias: “Miserai”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Ejipt”
  • North Ndebele: “Egypt”
  • Northern Frisian: “Egypten”
  • Northern Sami: “Egypta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Egypt”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Egypt”
  • Norwegian: “Egypt”
  • Novial: “Egiptia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Egypt”
  • Obolo: “Ijipiti”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Egipte”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܨܪܝܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܨܪܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ægypt”
  • Oriya: “ଇଜିପ୍ଟ”
  • Oromo: “Ijiipti”
  • Ossetian: “Мысыр”
  • Paiwan: “Idjiputu”
  • Pali: “ईजिप्ट”
  • Pampanga: “Ejiptu”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਸਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Egipto”
  • Pedi: “Egypt”
  • Persian: “مصر”
  • Picard: “Édjipe”
  • Piemontese: “Egit”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ejiipt”
  • Polish: “Egipt”
  • Pontic: “Αίγυπτος”
  • Portuguese: “Egipto”
  • Portuguese: “Egito”
  • Pushto: “مصر”
  • Quechua: “Egipto”
  • Quechua: “Ihiptu”
  • Romanian: “Egipt”
  • Romansh: “Egipta”
  • Rundi: “Egipto”
  • Rundi: “Misiri”
  • Russia Buriat: “Египет”
  • Russian: “Египет”
  • Rusyn: “Еґіпет”
  • Sakizaya: “Egypt”
  • Samoan: “Aikupito”
  • Samogitian: “Egėpts”
  • Sango: “Kâmitâ”
  • Sanskrit: “ईजिप्तदेशः”
  • Sanskrit: “मिस्रदेश”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱤᱥᱚᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱤᱥᱨᱚ”
  • Saraiki: “مصر”
  • Sardinian: “Egittu”
  • Sardinian: “Egitu”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Egittu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ägypten”
  • Scots: “Egyp”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Èipheit”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Èiphit”
  • Serbian: “Egipat”
  • Serbian: “Египат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Egipat”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢီးၵျိပ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Egypt”
  • Shona: “Ijipita”
  • Sicilian: “Eggittu”
  • Silesian: “Egipt”
  • Sindhi: “مصر”
  • Sinhala: “ඊජිප්තුව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Egyptt”
  • Slovak: “Egypt”
  • Slovenian: “Egipt”
  • Somali: “Masar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مصر”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میصر”
  • South Ndebele: “Egypt”
  • Southern Sotho: “Egepeta”
  • Spanish: “Egipto”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Egiptakondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵉⵚⵕⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Mesir”
  • Swahili: “Misri”
  • Swati: “IGibhithe”
  • Swedish: “Egypten”
  • Swiss German: “Ägypten”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠤꠡꠞ”
  • Tachelhit: “Miṣra”
  • Tagalog: “Ehipto”
  • Tahitian: “’Aifiti”
  • Tahitian: “Egipt”
  • Tajik: “Миср”
  • Talysh: “Misir”
  • Tamil: “எகிப்து”
  • Taroko: “Egypt”
  • Tatar: “Мисыр”
  • Telugu: “ఈజిప్టు”
  • Telugu: “ఈజిప్ట్”
  • Tetum: “Ejitu”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอียิปต์”
  • Thai: “อียิปต์”
  • Tibetan: “ཨའི་ཅི།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་ཇིབྚ།”
  • Tigre: “መስር”
  • Tigrinya: “ግብጺ”
  • Tigrinya: “ግብጽ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Ijip”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻIsipite”
  • Tsonga: “Egypt”
  • Tsonga: “Gibita”
  • Tswana: “Egypt”
  • Tulu: “ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Egypt”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “مصر”
  • Turkish: “Mısır”
  • Turkmen: “Müsür”
  • Tuvinian: “Египет”
  • Twi: “Misrim”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱sa̱t”
  • Udmurt: “Египет”
  • Uighur: “مىسىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Єгипет”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Egyptowska”
  • Urdu: “مصر”
  • Uzbek: “Misr”
  • Venda: “Egipita”
  • Venetian: “Ezito”
  • Veps: “Egipt”
  • Vietnamese: “Ai Cập”
  • Vlaams: “Egypte”
  • Vlax Romani: “Mêsire”
  • Volapük: “Lägüptän”
  • Võro: “Egüptüs”
  • Walloon: “Edjipe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ehipto”
  • Welsh: “Yr Aifft”
  • Western Armenian: “Եգիպտոս”
  • Western Armenian: “Եգիպտոսի Արաբական Հանրապետութիւն”
  • Western Armenian: “Մսր”
  • Western Balochi: “میسر”
  • Western Frisian: “Egypte”
  • Western Mari: “Египет”
  • Western Panjabi: “مصر”
  • Wolof: “Esipt”
  • Wolof: “Isipt”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃及”
  • Xhosa: “Jiphethe”
  • Yakut: “Эгиипэт”
  • Yiddish: “עגיפטן”
  • Yiddish: “עגיפּטן”
  • Yoruba: “Égípítì”
  • Yoruba: “Ẹ́gíptì”
  • Yoruba: “Ìjíptì”
  • Yue Chinese: “埃及”
  • Zeeuws: “Ehypte”
  • Zhuang: “Aehciz”
  • Zhuang: “Aihgiz”
  • Zulu: “i-Egypt”
  • Zulu: “IGibhithe”
  • “Egipt”
  • “Egiptoh”
  • “ma Masu”
  • “मिस्र”

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