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Transcript of Egypt
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By Sebastian
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The colors of the Egyptian flag are traditional Pan-Arabic colors.The red part represents to the period before the 1952 revolution.
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• Cleopatra Lake• Nile River• Petroleum• Natural gas• Iron ore, phosphates,
manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc
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• Capital: Cairo• Population: 83,082,869(July 2009est)• Conventional name: Arab Republic of
Egypt• Local name: Jumhuriyat Misir al-
Arabiya
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• Location: Northern Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and the Gaza Strip and Red Sea North of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinnai Peninsula.
• Chief of state: President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak.
• Head of state: Prime Minister Ahamed Mohamaed Nazif.
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• West= Libya• South= Sudan• East= Red Sea• North=
Mediterranean Sea• The border of Egypt
is 2,665 km and is shared with the Gaza Strip, Israel, Libya, and Sudan
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• The climate of Egypt is normally hot. Most of Egypt is sub-tropical area with rainfall averages of 2” a year
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• The ancient Egyptians lived and farmed along the Nile and began the earliest human civilization.
• The Nile river formed by the “White Nile” and the “Blue Nile”.
• 22% of the Nile goes through Egypt.• Nile means valley.
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• The Delta begins in Cairo and flows through lower Egypt.
• The delta is the best farming area.
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• Many Egyptians traded for the things they needed.
• The Nile river is the longest river at 4,135 miles!
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