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Egypt
By: Octavia Jones
Egypt Map
Countries Natural Resources
• Oil
• Gas
• Bees
• Papyrus Plant
• Wax
• Honey
Economy
• Egypt's economic spectrum has great
diversity, including involvement with
agriculture, textiles and some industry.
Independence Day
• Independence or National Days are the most
important day for a country to celebrate as a
national holiday. The majority of the countries on
earth became independent after 1800 and many
more following World War II when European
powers granted independence to their colonial
holdings, especially Africa. Egypt was declared
independent on February 28, 1922 from under
the British rule and it acquired full sovereignty
following World War II.
GDP & GNP
GDP - real growth rate:3.1% (2003 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity
- $4,000 (2003 est.) GDP - composition by
sector: agriculture: 17%
industry: 33%
services: 50% (2003)
GNP:92.89 billion dollars
GNP per capita:1255 dollars
Currency and inflation Rate
• is used as the
medium of exchange.
In this country pound
is used for the
purpose of
commutation. In
Arabic it is popularly
known as the gunaih
and is divided into
100 qirsh or 1000
malleem.
Population of Country and
Highest City Population
• Cairo Pop:15,892,400
• Metro Area:7,937,70
• Egypt population: 36.6 million
Egypt
• Labor Force:22.1 Million
• Unemployment Rate:91%
• Percentage of Population below
poverty line:20%
Agriculture Products
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Oranges
Capsicum
Green Beans
Artichoke
Onions
Chilly peppers
Strawberries
Sweet potatoes
Fruits
Industries
• Egypt at the time of the 1952 revolution was much
further advanced industrially than any other Arab country
or indeed any country in Africa except South Africa.
Under the socialist Nasser administration, the
government coordinated industrial expansion and the
establishment of an industrial base. As a result,
bureaucracy and a dependence on political directives
from the government became common to Egyptian
industry. Since the early 1990s the government has
promoted privatization as a way to eventually increase
industrial output
Exports
• Main Exports: Fruit
Vegetable
• Export Partners:
Italy 12.1%, US
11.3%, Spain 8.7%,
UK 5.5%, France
5.4%, Syria 5.1%,
Saudi Arabia 4.3%,
Germany 4.2%
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Imports
• Imports Partners: S 11.7%,
China 9.7%, Italy 6.4%,
Germany 6.3%, Saudi Arabia
4.7%, Russia 4.3%
• Main imports Cedar, oil,
Timber from Lebanon
• Copper, Semi-precious stones,
Gold, 'from Nubia
• Ebony, Ivory, Slaves, Exotic
animals, fromother parts of
tropical Africa
• Horses, Fruit, Honey, Pots,
Copper from countries around
the Mediterranean
Ethnic Groups
• Ethnic Groups The population of the Nile
valley and the delta, which are home to
the overwhelming majority of Egyptians,
forms a fairly homogeneous group whose
dominant physical characteristics are the
result of the admixture of the indigenous
Ethnic Groups
• African population with those of Arab
ancestry. Within urban areas (the northern
delta towns especially), foreign invaders
and immigrants—Persians, Romans,
Greeks, Crusaders, Turks,
Religions Languages
• The most widely spoken language in Egypt is Egyptian
Arabic (Maṣri), part of the Arabic languages of the
Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
Descended from the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt
during the AD seventh-century Muslim conquest, its
development was influenced mainly by the indigenous
Copto-Egyptian language of pre-Islamic Egypt and later
by other languages such as Turkish. It is the national
language of Egypt, spoken by more than 76 million
people. It is also one of the most widely spoken and
studied varieties of Arabic.
Miscellaneous Facts
• Egypt is one of the
world’s oldest
civilizations. Here are a
collections of facts and
trivia that will help tourists
get more from their
holiday.
• The Great Pyramid at
Giza is the only one of
the Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World still
standing. It was built from
2,500,00 stones each
weighing 2 to 7 tons.