Understanding the map of Egypt
February 12, 2020
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1 Geographic Location
Egypt is the only country in the world which is situated between 3 continents, 94% in Africa, 6% of Egyptian territory of the Sinai peninsula is in Asia and the Mediterranean Sea and is practically a gateway to the continent of Europe, and this justifies why The country has suffered in the last 3000 years several invasions from the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, because simply, can take from Egypt, means accessible access to 3 continents.
2- Nile River
The word Nile in the hieroglyphic language means the great river. The Nile is the only river that flows in the country, that is, the only source of water, in a dry country that almost does not rain any less in the north between December and January. 80% come from Ethiopia, 20% from Ghana, there are 10 countries in Africa that live off the waters of the Nile River.
3- The East or West Desert
Egypt is a huge lake surrounded by the two large deserts, the Sahara Desert and the Eastern Desert, in the middle runs the Nile River, in a unique phenomenon that left the country looking like a huge 1 mile square kilometer lake.
4- Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
Egypt has nearly 2000 km of beaches both in the Red Sea, and called red because of the hearts that fill the sea, made up 5 million years ago, the red mountain ranges of granite rocks and the Mediterranean Sea that lies in the north of the country. whole
5 Egyptian Population
The Egyptian People estimated today one day 87 million, out of the 5 or 6 million living outside the country, today one day lives on 6% of the total surface of the country, just on the bank of the Nile River, ie 94% of territory. Egyptian is abandoned because of lack of water and infrastructure and poor allocation of resources
6 The states of Egypt
There are 29 states in Egypt due to the Northern and Sur and Gran Cairo states,
The South of Egypt is practically poor, suffers from lack of infrastructure, employment, practically lives from agriculture and North of the country, may be in some states, better life, but the agricultural life that dominates it in the north, Gran Cairo, has Gizeh , Cairo Capital, October 6th) are the 3 most populous states in Egypt, because it has all the work, administration, infrastructure of everything like Sao Paulo in Brazil
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