Ancient Egypt
c. 3100–30 BCEThe Nile valley and delta; borders changed greatly between dynasties.
Royal and religious standards existed; no single modern-style national flag is documented here.
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Egypt
EG / EGY 27.0°, 29.0°
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 and the Sahara 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 centre, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 107 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world, third-most populous country in Africa, and 15th-most populated in the world.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
Egyptian
These are English demonyms for people from Egypt. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
Civilizations, flags & standards
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Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
Achaemenid Empire
c. 550–330 BCEAn empire centered in Iran; parts of these modern countries were held at different times, not for its entire lifespan.
Ancient accounts describe an eagle standard. Modern flag reconstructions should not be mistaken for a surviving national flag.
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Roman Empire
27 BCE–476 CE in the West; eastern empire continued to 1453Includes only parts of some modern states: much of Britain south of Scotland, and areas west of the Rhine or south of the Danube in Germany.
The aquila was a legion's eagle standard, not a national flag. No original legionary eagle is known to survive.
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Turning points
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An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.
Official status
Islam is the state religion.
Status referenceReligious affiliation
Largest religious group: Islam
Country overview; no percentages shownMost Muslims are Sunni. Egypt also has a longstanding Coptic Christian community; estimates of minority shares vary.
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Egypt in the study desk
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Egypt. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
Food & drink 5
Geography 3
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Where it is
Languages
Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.
What it sells, and to whom
Every line is a thread: click a commodity or a partner to see who else trades in it.
Trades with
Natural resources
Farms and fisheries
- sugarcane
- sugar beets
- wheat
- maize
- potatoes
- tomatoes
Largest cities
| Cairo capital | 9,606,916 |
| Alexandria | 5,263,542 |
| Giza | 4,367,343 |
| Shubrā al Khaymah | 1,240,289 |
| Port Said | 780,515 |
Wars and conflicts
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
World War II1939–1945
principal belligerent
Suez Crisis1956
principal belligerent
Greek War of Independence1821–1829
principal belligerent
Gulf War1990–1991
principal belligerent
Six-Day War1967
principal belligerent
Yom Kippur War1973
principal belligerent
War of Attrition1967–1970
recorded participant
Libyan–Egyptian War1977
recorded participant
Anglo-Egyptian War1882
recorded participant
Money, belief and alliances
Money
Belongs to
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
International Civil Defence Organisation
United Nations
World Meteorological Organization
International Development Association
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
Arab League
African Union
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
UNESCO
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
World Health Organization
World Trade Organization
Interpol
Climate and geography
desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
Climate zone
Highest point
Landmarks and landscapes
Northern hemisphere.
In charge right now
Figures from its history
Gamal Abdel Nasser
President who nationalised the Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.
Anwar Sadat
President who made peace with Israel
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who was the third president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.
Cleopatra
Last pharaoh of Egypt
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh.
Naguib Mahfouz
Nobel laureate novelist
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Checked facts
Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.
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Continents
— Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in.
Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: languages.