!!!Egypt: Geography
||Location|Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula
||Geographic Coordinates|27 00 N, 30 00 E[{GoogleMap location='27.0,30.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''1,001,450 sq km\\''land: ''995,450 sq km\\''water: ''6,000 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 1001450\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 1002450\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 1001450\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 1001450\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 996603\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 1001000''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''2,612 km\\''border countries: ''Gaza Strip 13 km, Israel 208 km, Libya 1,115 km, Sudan 1,276 km
||Coastline|2,450 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Qattara Depression -133 m\\''highest point: ''Mount Catherine 2,629 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Mount Sinai 2640 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Mount Catherine 2642 m; Jabal Zubayr 2634 m; Jabal Abu Rumayl 2624 m; Jabal Umm Shumar 2578 m; Jabal al Khala 2543 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Terrain|vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
||Natural Hazards|periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes; flash floods; landslides; hot, driving windstorms called khamsin occur in spring; dust storms; sandstorms
||Natural Resource|petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, rare earth elements, zinc
||Land Use|''arable land: ''2.87%\\''permanent crops: ''0.79%\\''other: ''96.34% (2011)
||Climate|desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
||Irrigated Land|34,220 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|57.3 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|agricultural land being lost to urbanization and windblown sands; increasing soil salination below Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; limited natural freshwater resources away from the Nile, which is the only perennial water source; rapid growth in population overstraining the Nile and natural resources
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Cairo; Alexandria; Giza; Shubra-El-Khema; Port Said\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Cairo; Alexandria; Giza; Port Said; Suez\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Egypt/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|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 from Sudan and the Palestinian territories