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Egypt
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مصر |
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[1]مصر - جمهورية مصر العربية
الاسم الرسمي للدولة طبقا لدستورها هو جمهورية مصر العربية و يترجم في المحافل الدولية إلى.
مصر دولة تقع في أقصي الشمال الشرقي لقارة أفريقيا، و تطل على كل من الساحل الجنوبي الشرقي للبحر المتوسط و الساحل الشمالي الغربي للبحر الأحمر بمساحة إجمالية تبلغ مليون كم² تقريبا. مصر دولة أفريقية غير أن جزءا من أراضيها، و هي شبه جزيرة سيناء، يقع في قارة آسيا.
تشترك مصر بحدود من الغرب مع ليبيا و من الجنوب مع السودان و من الشمال الشرقي مع إسرائيل وقطاع غزة، ويفصلها البحر الأحمر عن كل من الأردن و السعودية، و تمر عبر أرضها قناة السويس التي تفصل الجزء الآسيوي منها عن الجزء الافريقي.
مصر أكبر الدول العربية سكاناً،و ذات الترتيب الخامس عشر عالمياً من حيث عدد السكان الذين يعيش أغلبهم على ضفتي النيل و إلى جانب المنطقة الساحلية. تشكل الصحراء غالبية مساحتها و هي غير معمورة. معظم السكان في مصر حاليا من الحضر يعيشون في مدن ذات كثافة سكانية عالية، ربعهم في مدينة القاهرة الكبرى، أكبر مدن أفريقيا و الشرق الأوسط
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Français - L'Égypte, officiellement la République arabe d'Égypte, est un pays d'Afrique du nord-est. La partie nord-est du pays constituée par la péninsule du Sinaï se situe cependant en Asie. Sa capitale est Le Caire, sa langue officielle est l'arabe, sa langue parlée est l'égyptien (arabe dialectal) et sa monnaie est la livre égyptienne. |
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Egypt - Arab Republic of Egypt
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| Short name |
Egypt |
| Official name |
Arab Republic of Egypt |
| Status |
Independent country since 1922 |
| Location |
Northern Africa |
| Capital |
Idem |
| Population |
Idem inhabitants |
| Area |
Idem km² |
| Major language(s) |
idem |
| Major religion(s) |
idem |
| More information |
Egypt, Geography of Egypt, History of Egypt and Politics of Egypt |
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Egypt - Egypt (Category). |
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|capital = القاهرة (Cairo)[2] |population = 78,887,007 |surface = 1,001,449 |language = Arabic |religion = Islam, Coptic Christianity |intro = The Arab Republic of Egypt is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,560 square miles), Egypt borders ► Libya to the west, ► Sudan to the south, and ► Israel and the ► Gaza Strip to the northeast; on the north and the east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively.}}
General maps
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Map of Egypt |
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Map of Egypt |
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Governorates of Egypt in Arabic |
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Regions and boundaries |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Egypt, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Egypt.
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Map of Ancient Egypt (Polish) |
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Map of ancient Egypt |
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MAp of Ancient Egypt |
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Old Kingdom of Egypt (3rd to 6th Dynasties; 27th to 22nd centuries BC) |
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Egypt Empire |
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{{left|Image:Neues Reich.png|New Kingdom of Egypt}(18th to 20th Dynasties; 16th to 11th centuries BC)}
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This image depict de nomes (landmarks) of ancient egypt |
{{left|Image:Spätzeit.png|[[:w:en:Late Period of ancient Egypt} ((26th to 31st Dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC))|Late Period of ancient Egypt} ((26th to 31st Dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC))]]}
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Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian) |
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Idem. |
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Hellenistic world in 200 BCE |
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Location of Carthage and Carthaginian influence sphere before the First Punic War (264 BC) |
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Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present Egypt |
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The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;
██ 133 BC
██ 44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)
██ AD 14 (death of Augustus)
██ 117 (maximum extension)
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Division of the Roman Empire in 406 |
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Christian Nubia Kingdoms |
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The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control. |
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Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman |
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Caliphate around 750 |
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The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190 |
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Growth of the Ottoman Empire |
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Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683 |
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Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801 |
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June 1948 |
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October 1948 |
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October 1948 |
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Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949 |
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Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949 (detail) |
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Six-Day War: The Jordan salient |
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Six-Day War: Conquest of Sinai 7-8 June |
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Yom Kippur war |
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Yom Kippur war |
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.
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Map of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan |
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Map of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in 1892 |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
- ↑ Romanization: Miṣr, (Máṣr in Egyptian Arabic) - Jumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah.
- ↑ Romanization: Al-Qāhirah.
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