Some Knowledge You Must Know Before You Decide To Travel In Egypt
on June 20, 2017 at 10:56 amEgypt is located in the middle of Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and it also lies in the northeast area of Africa continent. Besides, the total territory of Egypt contains the Sinai Peninsula which is located in the southwest area of Asia. And the territory of Egypt passes across Asia and Africa, and the total area of Egypt is around 1.002 million square kilometers. Among them, 96% of total area of Egypt is desert, and the sea coast of Egypt is more than 2700 kilometers. Also, the longest river exist in the world—the Nile and the highest mountain of this country—the Mount Shabbat, whose altitude is around 2187 meters. Also, the capital of Egypt is Cairo, the population of 6.598 million people exist in Egypt, and in the meantime, the citizens and residents here all believe in Islam.
Islam is the state religion of Egypt, and there are 87% of Arabs who believe in Islam and 1.8% of Coptic people who believe in Christianity and 2.5 million Christians who believe in Greek Orthodox and Catholic as well as a few people who believe in Judaism in Egypt at present. Furthermore, the official language of Egypt is Arabic, also, English and French are also spoken among the middle or the upper society in Egypt. As a matter of fact, there exist not only the grand and marvelous as well as outstanding places of interests and local landscapes, such as the Pyramids, the mummies, the Sphinxes, etc., but also exist the beautiful Red Sea coasts as well as the grand Aswan Dam here in Egypt.
Moreover, there also exists the unified state of slavery in 3200BC and they also create and develop the splendid ancient civilization in Egypt. Also, after the BC 6th century, Egypt was ruled by different nations for around 2000 years, and then they were occupied and ruled by British armies in 1882. However, Egypt declared that they were independent in 1922, then, the Republic of Egypt was also founded in 1953. Also, as time went by, Egypt has already changed its nation name into the Arab Republic of Egypt in 1971.
What’s more, the ancient Egyptians have already left the grand Pyramids and mysterious Sphinxes as well as plenty of magnificent ancient temples for us and also let us pass through the long rivers of ancient history of the old an ancient Egypt.
In addition, we really hope that all the important information mentioned above can be useful and helpful to all of you. Thanks!