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 include Cairo and Alexandria.

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 .

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 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

Explore places such as 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.

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

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

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.

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.

Egypt

  • Type: Country with 100,000,000 residents
  • Description: country in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia
  • Also known as: 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”, “eg”, “EGY”, “El Masr”, “El Qutr el Masri”, “Jumhūrīyat Mişr al ‘Arabīyah”, “Misr”, “Mişr”, “Rep. Egypt”, “Republic of Egypt”, “United Arab Republic”, and “جُمهورِيةُ مِصرَ العَرَبيةِ
  • 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
.eg
Internet domain
20
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: Египет
  • 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: جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة
  • 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 Ərəb Respublikası
  • Azerbaijani: Misir
  • Balinese: Mesir
  • Bambara: Eziputi
  • Bambara: Misra
  • Banjar: Mesir
  • Bashkir: Мысыр
  • Basque: Egipto
  • Batak Mandailing: Mesir
  • Batak Toba: Misir
  • Bavarian: Ägyptn
  • Bavarian: Egyptn
  • Belarusian: Егіпет
  • Belarusian: Эгіпет
  • Belarusian: Эгіпэт
  • Bengali: মিশর
  • Betawi: Mesir
  • Bhojpuri: इजिप्ट
  • Bhojpuri: मिस्र
  • Bishnupriya: মিশর
  • Bislama: Ijip
  • Bosnian: Egipat
  • Breton: Egipt
  • Breton: Ejipt
  • Buginese: Masiriq
  • Buginese: Misiriq
  • Buginese: ᨆᨔᨗᨑᨗ
  • Buginese: ᨆᨗᨔᨗᨑᨗ
  • Buginese: ᨆᨙᨔᨗᨑ
  • Bulgarian: Арабска република Египет
  • Bulgarian: Египет
  • Burmese: အီဂျစ်
  • Burmese: အီဂျစ်နိုင်ငံ
  • Catalan: Egipte
  • Catalan: República Àrab d’Egipte
  • Cebuano: Ehipto
  • Central Bikol: Ehipto
  • Central Kanuri: Egypt
  • Central Kurdish: میسر
  • Chamorro: Ehiptu
  • Chavacano: Egipto
  • Chechen: Мисар
  • Cherokee: ᎢᏥᏈᎢ
  • Cheyenne: Egypt
  • Chinese: Ai-ki̍p
  • Chinese: Āijí
  • Chinese: 埃及
  • Chinese: 阿拉伯埃及共和国
  • Chinese: 阿拉伯埃及共和國
  • Church Slavic: Єгѷптъ
  • Chuvash: Египет
  • Cornish: Ejyp
  • Corsican: Eghjittu
  • Corsican: Egittu
  • Corsican: Republica Àraba d’Egittu
  • Corsican: Ripublica Àraba d’Eghjittu
  • Crimean Tatar: Mısır
  • Croatian: Egipat
  • Czech: Egypt
  • Czech: Egyptská arabská republika
  • Dagbani: Egypt
  • Danish: Ægypten
  • Danish: Egypten
  • Dhivehi: މިޞްރު
  • Dimli (individual language): Mısır
  • Dotyali: इजिप्ट
  • Dutch: Arabische Republiek Egypte
  • Dutch: EG
  • Dutch: EGY
  • Dutch: Egypte
  • Dzongkha: ཨི་ཇིབཊ
  • Eastern Mari: Египет
  • Egyptian Arabic: جمهورية مصر العربيه
  • Egyptian Arabic: مصر
  • Erzya: Египет Мастор
  • Esperanto: Araba Respubliko Egiptio
  • Esperanto: EG
  • Esperanto: Egiptio
  • Esperanto: Egipto
  • Esperanto: Egiptujo
  • Esperanto: Respubliko Egiptio
  • Estonian: Egiptus
  • Ewe: Edzipti
  • Ewe: Egipte
  • Ewe: Egypte nutome
  • Extremaduran: Egitu
  • Farefare: Egypt
  • Faroese: Egyptaland
  • Fiji Hindi: Egypt
  • Fijian: Ijipita
  • Fijian: Ijipta
  • Finnish: Egypti
  • Finnish: Egyptin tasavalta
  • French: Ég.
  • French: EG
  • French: Égypte
  • French: République arabe d’Égypte
  • Friulian: Egjit
  • Fulah: Ejipt
  • Fulah: Misra
  • Gagauz: Egipet
  • Gagauz: Mısır
  • Galician: Exipto
  • Galician: República Árabe de Exipto
  • Gan Chinese: 埃及
  • Ganda: Egypt
  • Ganda: Misiri
  • Georgian: ეგვიპტე
  • German: Ägypten
  • German: Arabische Republik Ägypten
  • German: eg
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Arab Republic of Egypt
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Egypt
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Republic of Egypt
  • Gilaki: مصر
  • Goan Konkani: Ejipt
  • Goan Konkani: ईजिप्त
  • Goan Konkani: मिस्र
  • Gorontalo: Mesir
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍅𐍀𐍄𐌰𐌿
  • Greek: Αίγυπτος
  • Greek: Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Αιγύπτου
  • Guarani: Ehipto
  • Guarani: Ehíto
  • Guianese Creole French: Léjip
  • Gujarati: ઇજિપ્ત
  • Gujarati: મિસર
  • Haitian: Ejip
  • Hakka Chinese: Âi-khi̍p
  • Hausa: Misira
  • Hausa: Misra
  • Hawaiian: ‘Aikupika
  • Hawaiian: ʻAikupika
  • Hebrew: מצרים
  • Hindi: मिस्त्र
  • Hindi: मिस्र
  • Hungarian: Egyiptom
  • Hungarian: Egyiptomi Arab Köztársaság
  • Iban: Ejip
  • Icelandic: Egyptaland
  • Ido: Egiptia
  • Igbo: Egypt
  • Iloko: Ehipto
  • Iloko: Ehípto
  • Inari Sami: Egypt arabitäsiväldi
  • Inari Sami: Egypt
  • Indonesian: Mesir
  • Indonesian: Mishr
  • Indonesian: Republik Arab Mesir
  • Indonesian: Republik Mesir
  • Ingush: Мисаре
  • Interlingua: Egypto
  • Interlingue: Egiptia
  • Inupiaq: Masuġaq
  • Irish: an Éigipt
  • Irish: An Éigipt
  • Italian: Egitto
  • Italian: Repubblica Araba d’Egitto
  • Jamaican Creole English: Iijip
  • Japanese: エジプト・アラブ共和国
  • Japanese: エジプト
  • Japanese:
  • Japanese: 埃及
  • Javanese: Mesir
  • Kabiyè: Egipiti
  • Kabuverdianu: Ejitu
  • Kabyle: Maṣer
  • Kalaallisut: Egypt
  • Kalaallisut: Egypten
  • Kalmyk: Иҗибдин Араб Орн
  • Kannada: ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Egypt
  • Kara-Kalpak: Mısır
  • Karachay-Balkar: Мисир
  • Kashmiri: مِسٔر
  • Kashmiri: مِصر
  • Kashubian: Egipt
  • Kazakh: Мысыр Араб Республикасы
  • Kazakh: Мысыр
  • Khmer: អេស៊ីប
  • Khmer: អេហ្ស៊ីប
  • Kikuyu: Egypt
  • Kikuyu: Misri
  • Kirghiz: Египет
  • Komering: Mosir
  • Komi: Египет Араб Республика
  • Kongo: Misiri
  • Korean: 애급
  • Korean: 에짚트
  • Korean: 이집트
  • Kotava: Misra
  • Kurdish: Misir
  • Kurdish: میسر
  • Ladin: Egit
  • Ladino: Ayifto
  • Lak: Мисри
  • Lao: ປະເທດເອຢິບ
  • Lao: ອີຢິບ
  • Latgalian: Egipts
  • Latin: Aegyptus
  • Latin: Res publica Arabica Aegypti
  • Latvian: Ēģipte
  • Lezghian: Мисри
  • Ligurian: Egitto
  • Limburgan: Egypte
  • Lingala: Ejipte
  • Lingala: Ezípite
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Egipte
  • 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 arábarepublijkka
  • Lule Sami: Egippta
  • Luxembourgish: Ägypten
  • Luxembourgish: Arabesch Republik Ägypten
  • Luxembourgish: Arabesch Republik Egypten
  • Luxembourgish: Egypten
  • Luxembourgish: Republik Ägypten
  • Luxembourgish: Republik Egypten
  • Macedo-Romanian: Eghiptu
  • Macedonian: Египет
  • Madurese: Mesir
  • Maithili: मिस्र
  • Malagasy: Ejipta
  • Malagasy: Ejypta
  • Malay: eg
  • Malay: EG
  • Malay: EGY
  • Malay: Mesir
  • Malay: Republik Arab Mesir
  • Malay: Republik Mesir
  • Malay: مصر
  • Malayalam: ഈജിപ്ത്
  • Malayalam: ഈജിപ്റ്റ്‌
  • Malayalam: ഈജിപ്റ്റ്
  • Maltese: Eġittu
  • Maltese: l-Eġittu
  • Maltese: Repubblika Għarbija tal-Eġittu
  • Maltese: Repubblika tal-Eġittu
  • Manipuri: ꯏꯖꯤꯞ
  • Manx: Eajipt
  • Manx: Egypt
  • Manx: Ejypt
  • Manx: yn Eajipt
  • Manx: yn Egypt
  • Manx: Yn Egypt
  • Maori: Īhipa
  • Marathi: इजिप्त
  • Mazanderani: مسر
  • Mazanderani: مصر
  • Mazanderani: مه‌صه‌ر
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: مصر
  • Min Dong Chinese: Ăi-gĭk
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ai-ki̍p A-la-pek Kiōng-hô-kok
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ai-ki̍p
  • Min Nan Chinese: Egypt
  • Minangkabau: Mesir
  • Mingrelian: ეგვიპტე
  • Mirandese: Eigito
  • Moksha: Арабонь Республикась Эгипт
  • Moksha: Эгипт
  • Mongolian: Египет
  • Moroccan Arabic: مصر
  • N'Ko: ߌߖ߭ߌߔߑߕ
  • Narom: Êgypte
  • Nauru: Idjipt
  • Navajo: Ahidiitłʼintsoh Daʼííłʼíní Bikéyah
  • Neapolitan: Naggitto
  • Nepali: इजिप्ट
  • Newari: मिस्र
  • Nias: Mesir
  • Nias: Miserai
  • Nigerian Pidgin: Ejipt
  • North Ndebele: Egypt
  • Northern Frisian: Egypten
  • Northern Sami: Egypta arábadásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Egypta
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Den arabiske republikken Egypt
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Egypt
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Egypten
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Egypt
  • Norwegian: Egypt
  • Novial: Egiptia
  • Obolo: Ijipiti
  • Occitan (post 1500): Egipte
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܡܨܪܝܢ
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܡܨܪܢ
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ægypt
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Araobische Republiek Ehypte
  • 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
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Erab Repablik a‘ Ejiipt
  • Polish: Arabska Republika Egiptu
  • Polish: Egipt
  • Pontic: Αίγυπτος
  • Portuguese: Egipto
  • Portuguese: Egito
  • Portuguese: Republica Arabe do Egipto
  • Portuguese: República Árabe do Egipto
  • Portuguese: Republica Arabe do Egito
  • Portuguese: República Árabe do Egito
  • Pushto: مصر
  • Quechua: Egipto
  • Quechua: Ihiptu
  • Romanian: Egipt
  • Romansh: Egipta
  • Rundi: Egipto
  • Rundi: Misiri
  • Russia Buriat: Египет
  • Russian: Арабская Республика Египет
  • Russian: АРЕ
  • 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
  • Sassarese Sardinian: Reprùbbigga Àraba d’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: ඊජිප්තු අරාබි ජනරජය
  • Sinhala: ඊජිප්තුව
  • Skolt Sami: Egyptt
  • Skolt Sami: Egyypt araabtääʹssväʹldd
  • Slovak: Egypt
  • Slovak: Egyptská arabská republika
  • Slovenian: Egipt
  • Somali: Masar
  • South Azerbaijani: مصر
  • South Azerbaijani: میصر
  • South Ndebele: Egypt
  • Southern Sotho: Egepeta
  • Spanish: Egipto
  • Spanish: Republica Arabe de Egipto
  • Spanish: República Árabe de Egipto
  • Sranan Tongo: Egiptakondre
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵎⵉⵚⵕⴰ
  • Sundanese: Mesir
  • Swahili: Misri
  • Swati: IGibhithe
  • Swedish: Arabrepubliken Egypten
  • 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།
  • Tigrinya: EG
  • Tigrinya: EGY
  • Tigrinya: ዓረባዊት ሪፓብሊክ ግብጺ
  • Tigrinya: ግብጺ
  • Tigrinya: ግብጽ
  • Tok Pisin: Ijip
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻIsipite
  • Tosk Albanian: Ägypten
  • Tsonga: Egypt
  • Tsonga: Gibita
  • Tswana: Egypt
  • Tumbuka: Egypt
  • Tunisian Arabic: مصر
  • Turkish: Mısır
  • Turkmen: Müsür
  • Tuvinian: Египет
  • Twi: Misrim
  • Tyap: Iji̱p
  • Tyap: Ma̱sa̱r
  • Tyap: Ma̱sa̱t
  • Tyap: Misi̱ri
  • Udmurt: Египет
  • Uighur: مىسىر
  • Ukrainian: Арабська Республіка Єгипет
  • Ukrainian: Єгипет
  • Upper Sorbian: Egyptowska
  • Urdu: مصر
  • Uzbek: Misr
  • Venda: Egipita
  • Venetian: Ezito
  • Veps: Egipt
  • Veps: Egiptan Arabine Tazovaldkund
  • Veps: Egiptan Tazovaldkund
  • Vietnamese: Ai Cập
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Ả Rập Ai Cập
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Ả Rập Ai Cập
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Ai Cập
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Ai Cập
  • Vlaams: Egypte
  • Vlax Romani: Mêsire
  • Volapük: Lägüptän
  • Võro: Egüptüs
  • Walloon: Edjipe
  • Waray (Philippines): Ehipto
  • Welsh: Yr Aifft
  • Welsh: Yr Aipht
  • Western Armenian: Եգիպտոս
  • 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
  • Arabeh Axkayotl tlen Egiptoh
  • Egėpts
  • Egiptoh
  • Egiptoh Axkayotl
  • Egiptoh Tlalli
  • Egitte
  • Egüptüs
  • ma Masu
  • Mesir
  • मिस्र

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