Outline of Egypt

Last updated December 21, 2025

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Egypt:

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula . It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , Palestine and Israel to the northeast , the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west . The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia . Cairo is the capital, largest city , and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 107 million inhabitants, Egypt is the third-most populous country in Africa and 15th-most populated in the world .

General reference

Pronunciation: /ˈiːdʒɪpt/
Common English country name: Egypt
Official English country name: The Arab Republic of Egypt
Common endonym(s): Misr
Official endonym(s): Ǧumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah
Adjectival(s): Egyptian
Demonym(s):
Etymology: Name of Egypt
International rankings of Egypt
ISO country codes: EG, EGY, 818
ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:EG
Internet country code top-level domain: .eg

Geography of Egypt

Egypt is: a country
Location
- Egypt is situated within the following regions:
- Time zone: Egypt Standard Time (UTC+02), Egypt Daylight Time (UTC+03) April–September
- Extreme points of Egypt
  - High: Mount Catherine 2,629 m (8,625 ft)
  - Low: Qattara Depression −133 m (−436 ft)
- Land boundaries: 2,665 km (1,656 mi)

Sudan 1,273 km (791 mi)

Libya 1,115 km (693 mi)

Israel 266 km (165 mi)

Palestine 11 km (7 mi)

Coastline: 2,450 km (1,522 mi)

Population of Egypt: 88,662,800 people (2015 estimate) - 14th most populous country
Area of Egypt: 1,002,450 km² (387,050 sq mi) - 30th largest country
Atlas of Egypt

Environment of Egypt

Governorates of Egypt

Nr.	Name	Area (km²)	Population (2015)	Capital
2	Alexandria	2,300	4,812,186	Alexandria
27	Aswan	62,726	1,431,488	Aswan
22	Asyut	25,926	4,245,215	Asyut
3	Beheira	9,826	5,804,262	Damanhur
19	Beni Suef	10,954	2,856,812	Beni Suef
16	Cairo	3,085	9,278,441	Cairo
5	Dakahlia	3,538	5,949,001	Mansura
6	Damietta	910	1,330,843	Damietta
15	Faiyum	6,068	3,170,150	Faiyum
9	Gharbia	1,942	4,751,865	Tanta
14	Giza	13,184	7,585,115	Giza
13	Ismailia	5,067	1,178,641	Ismailia
4	Kafr el-Sheikh	3,467	3,172,753	Kafr el-Sheikh
26	Luxor	2,410	1,147,058	Luxor
1	Matruh	166,563	447,846	Mersa Matruh
20	Minya	32,279	5,156,702	Minya
10	Monufia	2,499	3,941,293	Shibin el-Kom
21	New Valley	440,098	225,416	Kharga
8	North Sinai	28,992	434,781	Arish
7	Port Said	1,345	666,599	Port Said
11	Qalyubia	1,124	5,105,972	Banha
25	Qena	10,798	3,045,504	Qena
23	Red Sea	119,099	345,775	Hurghada
12	Sharqia	4,911	6,485,412	Zagazig
24	Sohag	11,022	4,603,861	Sohag
18	South Sinai	31,272	167,426	El-Tor
17	Suez	9,002	622,859	Suez

Municipalities of Egypt

List of cities in Egypt

Capital of Egypt: Cairo (outline)

Demography of Egypt

Demographics of Egypt

Ethnicities

Egyptians

Nubians

Copts

Dom people

Beja

Bedouin

Greeks

Armenians

Government and politics of Egypt

Politics of Egypt

Branches of the government of Egypt

Government of Egypt

Executive branch of the government of Egypt

Head of state: is the President of Egypt.
Head of government: is the President of Egypt.
- Cabinet of Egypt

Legislative branch of the government of Egypt

Parliament of Egypt – it was dissolved by the army of Egypt on 11 February 2011.
- Upper house: Shura Council
- Lower house: People's Assembly of Egypt

Judicial branch of the government of Egypt

Egyptian Judicial System

Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt
Court of Appeal
Court of First Instance
Family Court

Foreign relations of Egypt

International organization membership

The Arab Republic of Egypt is a member of:^[2]

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
African Union (AU)
Malvern College Egypt (MCE)
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA)
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD)
Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)
Black Sea Economic Cooperation Zone (BSEC) (observer)
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Group of 15 (G15)
Group of 24 (G24)
Group of 77 (G77)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International Criminal Court (ICCt) (signatory)
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
International Development Association (IDA)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS)
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO)

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
League of Arab States (LAS)
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
Nonaligned Movement (NAM)
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (partner)
Organization of American States (OAS) (observer)
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)
Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
United Nations (UN)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)
United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)
United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT)
United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS)
United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG)
United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
World Customs Organization (WCO)
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)

Egypt is 1 of only 7 U.N. members which is not a member of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Law and order in Egypt

Law of Egypt

Media of Egypt

Military of Egypt

Command
- Commander-in-chief:
  - Ministry of Defence of Egypt
Forces
Military history of Egypt
Military ranks of Egypt

History of Egypt

History of Egypt, by period

History of Ancient Egypt: 3100 BC to 639 AD
- Ancient Egypt
  - List of ancient Egypt topics
- Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
  - First Dynasty of Egypt c. 3150–2890
  - Second Dynasty of Egypt: 2890–2686
- Old Kingdom of Egypt
  - Third Dynasty of Egypt: 2686–2613
  - Fourth Dynasty of Egypt: 2613–2498
  - Fifth Dynasty of Egypt: 2498–2345
  - Sixth Dynasty of Egypt: 2345–2181
- First Intermediate Period of Egypt
  - Seventh Dynasty of Egypt: 2181, usually considered spurious
  - Eighth Dynasty of Egypt: 2181–2160
  - Ninth Dynasty of Egypt: 2160–2130
  - Tenth Dynasty of Egypt: 2130–2040
  - Early Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt: 2134–2061
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt
  - Late Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt: 2061–1991
  - Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt: 1991–1803
  - Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt: 1803–1649
  - Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt: 1705–1690
- Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
  - Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt: 1674–1535
  - Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt: 1660–1600
  - Abydos Dynasty | | 1650–1600
  - Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt: 1580–1549
- New Kingdom of Egypt
  - Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt: 1549–1292
  - Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt: 1292–1189
  - Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt: 1189–1077
- Third Intermediate Period of Egypt
  - Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt: 1069–945
  - Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt: 945–720
  - Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt: 837–728
  - Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt: 732–720
  - Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt: 732–653
- Late Period of ancient Egypt
  - Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt: 672–525
  - History of Achaemenid Egypt: 525 BC to 332 BC
    - Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt: 525–404
    - Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt: 404–398
    - Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt: 398–380
    - Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt: 380–343
    - Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt: 343–332
- History of Ptolemaic Egypt: 332 BC to 30 BC
  - Argead Dynasty | 332–305
  - Ptolemaic Kingdom | 305–30
- History of Roman Egypt: 30 BC to 639 AD
  - Diocese of Egypt c. 381 to 539
Sasanian Egypt: 619 to 629
History of Arab Egypt: 639 to 1517
- Muslim conquest of Egypt
- Saladin in Egypt 1163 to 1174
History of Ottoman Egypt: 1517 to 1805
History of Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty: 1805 to 1882
- Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
History of modern Egypt: since 1882
- History of Egypt under the British: 1882 to 1956
  - 1919 Egyptian revolution
    - Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence
  - Egypt during World War II
  - History of republican Egypt 1952 to present
    - History of Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser 1952-1970
      - 1952 Egyptian revolution
      - Republic of Egypt (1953–58)
    - History of Egypt under Anwar Sadat 1970 to 1981
    - History of Egypt under Hosni Mubarak 1981-2011
    - Egyptian crisis (2011–14)
      - 2011 Egyptian revolution (also called "25th of January revolution")
      - June 2013 Egyptian protests
      - 2013 Egyptian coup d'état
      - Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)

History of Egypt, by region

History of Alexandria
- Timeline of Alexandria
History of Cairo
- Timeline of Cairo
History of Giza
History of Luxor
History of Memphis, Egypt
History of the Nile Delta
History of Port Said
- Timeline of Port Said
History of the Sinai Peninsula
History of Suez

History of Egypt, by subject

Economy and infrastructure of Egypt

Economy of Egypt

Education in Egypt

References

↑ The only glaciers in Africa are on Mt Kenya (in Kenya), on Kilimanjaro (in Tanzania), and in the Ruwenzori Mountains (which are located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo). See Proceedings of the Riederalp Workshop, September 1978; Actes de l'Atelier de Riederalp, septembre 1978): IAHS-AISH Publ. no. 126, 1980.
↑ "Egypt". The World Factbook . United States Central Intelligence Agency. July 3, 2009. Retrieved July 23, 2009.

External links

Wikimedia Atlas of Egypt

Eternal Egypt
Leonard William King, History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery, Project Gutenberg.
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero, History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, in 12 volumes, Project Gutenberg.
Rural poverty in Egypt (IFAD)
Ancient Egyptian Civilization - Aldokkan
Encyclopædia Britannica's Egypt Country Page
Egyptian Government Services Portal Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
Egypt State Information Services
Egypt Information Portal - available in Arabic and English
BBC News Country Profile - Egypt
CIA World Factbook - Egypt
Amnesty International's 2005 Report on Egypt.
US State Department - Egypt includes Background Notes, Country Study and major reports
Business Anti-Corruption Portal Egypt Country Profile
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding Egypt Archived 2009-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
Egypt travel guide from Wikivoyage
Egypt Maps - Perry–Castañeda Map Collection
Egyptian History (urdu)
By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920 (a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; DjVu & layered PDF format)
Egypt Online Directory
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Archived 2007-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
PortSaid Free-zone forums

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[1] The only glaciers in Africa are on Mt Kenya (in Kenya), on Kilimanjaro (in Tanzania), and in the Ruwenzori Mountains (which are located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo). See Proceedings of the Riederalp Workshop, September 1978; Actes de l'Atelier de Riederalp, septembre 1978): IAHS-AISH Publ. no. 126, 1980.

[CIA_World_Factbook-2] "Egypt". The World Factbook . United States Central Intelligence Agency. July 3, 2009. Retrieved July 23, 2009.

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