EGYPT

POPULATION OF EGYPT: 86,895,099

• Major Cities - Population
• Cairo - 11.169 Million
• Alexandria - 4.494 Million

ETHNICITIES IN EGYPT(2006 CENSUS)

• Egyptian - The original people that lived here from the beginning 99.6 %
• Other - People who have moved their from their own country. 0.4%

EGYPTIAN WARS

• Napoleon’s Conquest of Egypt (1798-1801)-- Part of the French Revolutionary Wars, a French army, led by Napoleon, defeated the Turks and conquered Egypt.
• Egyptian Revolution (1803-1805)-- Political violence engulfed Egypt, leading to the rise of Muhammed Ali as Pasha of Egypt.
• Anglo-Egyptian War (1807)-- Seeking to replace Muhammed Ali with a puppet ruler favorable to British interests, Britain invaded with nearly 5,000 troops on March 17, 1807.
• Ali’s Massacre of the Mamelukes (1811)-- In order to consolidate his power as the ruler of Egypt, Muhammed Ali killed the Mameluke leaders and massacred the Mameluke soldiers, replacing them with an army of Albanian mercenaries.
• Wahabi War (1811-1818)-- After recognizing Ottoman suzerainty over Egypt (a formality which left Ali in charge, but created a peace between Egypt and the Turks), Ali engaged in a war against the Wahabi Muslim sect in Arabia

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• Albanian Mercenary Mutiny (1815)-- Brief mutiny by Ali’s Albanian mercenaries in Cairo.
• Egyptian Conquest of the Sudan (1820-1839)-- Led by Ali’s son Hussein, Egyptian forces conquered the Sudan, extending Egyptian control along the Red Sea coast, and as far south along the Nile as modern Uganda, then known as Gondokoro.
• Greek War of Independence (1821-1832)-- Egypt’s part in the war came about when the Ottoman Turks requested Egyptian aid in fighting the rebellious Greeks.
• First Turko-Egyptian War (1832-1833)--Upset by the Ottoman Empire’s refusal to give him control of Syria as payment for his participation in the ill-fated Greek War, Pasha Ali declared war on the Turks in 1832.
• Second Turko-Egyptian War (1839-1841)--This conflict can be considered the second half of the Turko-Egyptian War which began in 1832.

NATURAL RESOURCES

• petroleum, natural gas, iron ore,
• Phosphates, manganese, limestone,
• Gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead,
• Rare earth elements, Zinc

INDUSTRIES

• textiles- Clothing , food processing- food, tourism- pyramids and spinxes,
• Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbons, construction- shelter for inhabitants
• Cement, metals, light manufactures

EGYPT'S GOVERNMENT

EGYPT'S INDEPENDENCE

ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI

EGYPTS PHYSICAL SIZE

EGYPT'S GEOLOGICAL HISTORY HAS PRODUCED FOUR MAJOR PHYSICAL REGIONS

• Nile Valley and Nile Delta.
• Western Desert (also known as the Libyan Desert)
• Eastern Desert (extends from the Nile Valley all the way to the Red Sea coast)
• Sinai Peninsula

EGYPT'S FLAG

NEWS IN EGYPT

• WASHINGTON--Over the weekend, Egypt unveiled plans to build a wholly new capital.
• The new city would lie somewhere to Cairo’s east, closer to the Red Sea.
• It would sprawl across some 150 square miles and potentially be home to as many as 7 million people.
• Projected to cost $45 billion, it was announced at a summit in the seaside resort of Sharm El-Sheikh
• aimed at boosting the country’s flagging economy.

AGRICULTURE

• About 96 percent of Egypt’s total area is desert. Lack of forests, permanent meadows, or pastures places a heavy burden on the available arable land, which constitutes only about 3 percent of the total area. This limited area, which sustains on the average 8 persons per acre (20 per hectare), is, however, highly fertile and is cropped more than once a year.

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• Egyptian agriculture is geared overwhelmingly toward commercial rather than subsistence production. Egypt has two seasons of cultivation, one for winter and another for summer crops. The main summer field crop is cotton, which absorbs much of the available labour and represents a notable portion of the value of exports. Egypt is the world’s principal producer of long-staple cotton (1.125 inches [2.85 cm] and longer), normally supplying about one-third of the world crop; total Egyptian cotton production, however, constitutes just a tiny fraction of the global yield. Among other principal field crops are corn (maize), rice, wheat, sorghum, and fava (broad) beans (fūl). Other important crops include sugarcane, tomatoes, sugar beets, potatoes, and onions. Many varieties of fruit are grown, and some, such as citrus, are exported.

EGYPTIAN EDUCATION

• Egypt has an extensive education system that outstrips all others in the Middle East and North Africa, and where even tertiary education is free. The compulsory primary education program follows kindergarten at age 4. Primary school that begins at age six takes 6 years and preparatory school another 3.

EGYPT'S CLIMATE

• Egypt essentially has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh). The climate is generally extremely dry all over the country except on the northern Mediterranean coast which receives more rainfall in winter.