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controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, a sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea; size, and juxtaposition to Israel, establish its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics; dependence on upstream neighbors; dominance of Nile basin issues; prone to influxes of refugees

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Egypt
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Capital:Cairo
Currency:Egyptian pound (EGP)
Languages:Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
Population:76,117,421
Area:1,001,450
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Sharm el Sheikh

All year round.
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City
Cairo
The bustling metropolis in the land of the pharaohs on the banks of the Nile.
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Dive
Alexandria, Dahab, El Gouna, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba
For further information see the British Sub Aqua Club site
All year round.
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Heritage
Major heritage sites include:
  • Abu Mena
  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
  • Islamic Cairo
  • Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
  • Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
  • Saint Catherine Area
  • Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
See the UNESCO website for more details
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Habib was responding to a recent report released by the Oxford Business Group entitled "Emerging Egypt 2008," which postulated that the MB would constitute an impediment to political reform if it assumed power.


Two Italian tourists died and 25 others were injured in a bus crash Wednesday on Egypt's northern coast near the World War II battlefield of El Alamein, Egypt's state-owned Middle<sep/>








Egyptian life, geography, gods and goddesses, mummification, pharaoh, pyramids, temples, time, trades, writing. Great pictures.


<sep/>the 'Remote Place' in ancient Egyptian, the Island of Philae, near the First Cataract in Upper Egypt. In the ancient days this was the center of the worship of Isis, and the last outpost of<sep/>

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Esna Bridge, Egypt


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Cairo Airport Footbridge, Egypt


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Luxor Bridge, Egypt


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Dendera Bridge, Qena, Egypt


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Sakkara Bridge, Sakkara, Egypt


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Water.
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Old City.
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flushing Water.
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