Population: 68 360 000 hab.
Density: 68hab. /km2
Surface: 1 001 450 km2
Capital: Cairo
Principal cities: Cairo, Alexandria, Gizeh, Port-Said, Tanta, Shubra-el-Klema,
Mahalla-el-shubra
Climax and principal assembly lines: Tightened of Mantiqueira,
Tightened do Mar or Geral Tightened
Language official: Arab
Spoken language: Arab, French and English
Currency: The egyptienne livre divided into 100 piastres
Statute: Republic (Arab of Egypt)
Close countries: Libya, Sudan, Israel, Jordan
Principal rivers: The Nile.
Seas: Red Sea, The Mediterranean
Precipitations in Egypt: they do not exceed 24 mm of water per annum.
Stopping of Aswan: In High-Egypt, on the Nile, connected by the road and the railroads to Cairo. Site of a stopping initially built in 1902 then in 1959. This gigantic work (111m top) which created the lake Nasser (157 billion cubic meter of reserve for approximately 4 000 km², 500 km length and 8 km broad) product 10 GigaWatt per annum and makes cultivable 500 000 ha of ground of which 300 000 are irrigated permanently thanks to the constant flow that it ensures.
Segolène et Elisabeth
from the college Jean Cocteau in Maisons-Laffitte, France