Foreign Trade in Egypt, Cairo, Alexandria

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Egypt (Business) Shubra El Kheima, Port Said, Suez, Mansoura, Cairo

Egypt (the Arab Republic of Egypt) is a North-East African country

جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة in Arabic
Cairo is the economic, political and administrative capital of Egypt and the largest Egyptian city
The largest cities of Egypt are Cairo, Alexandria, Shubra El Kheima, Giza, Port Said, Suez, El Mahalla El Kubra, Luxor, Mansoura and Tanta
Other Egyptian cities are Asuyt, Isamilia, Faiyum, Zagazig, Damietta, Aswan, Minya and Damanhur
Egypt share borders with Israel, Libya (1,115 kilometres), Palestine and Sudan (1,273 kilometres)
1. Jordan is on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba
2. Opposite the Sinai Peninsula is Saudi Arabia
The main Egyptian economic activities are agriculture, industry and tourism(12.8 million tourists)
The main crops are cotton, rice, wheat, corn, cane sugar, sugar beet, onion, tobacco and beans
Revenue from the Suez Canal is one of the pillars of the Egyptian economy

The main industries are textiles, food processing, chemical and pharmaceutical products, cement and light manufactured products.

Automotive Manufacturing: Nasr Automotive Manufacturing Company, Arab American Vehicles, Egy-Tech Engineering, Ghabbour Group, WAMCO (Watania Automotive Manufacturing Company) and MCV
Abu Qir Fertilizers is one of the largest producers of nitrogen fertilizers in Egypt
Olympic Group is the largest Egyptian company in household appliances.
Bahgat Group is a leading company in electronics, appliances, furniture and real estate.
Orascom Construction Industries is the largest engineering, procurement and construction company
Talaat Moustafa Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Egypt

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Egyptian Students from Egypt

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Suez Canal

Egyptian Economy

The Egyptian main mineral resources are oil, natural gas, phosphates, gold and iron ore.
1. Coal deposits in north-east Sinai
2. Oil and gas are produced in the western desert regions, the Gulf of Suez and the Nile delta.
3. Egypt has a huge gas reserves
The largest Egyptian companies are Orascom Group and Raya Contact Centre
Cairo Stock Exchange
Currency of Egypt: Egyptian pound
The Egyptian legal system is based on the Islamic and civil law (Napoleonic codes)
1. Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) is the main source of the Egyptian law

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Egyptian population: 97 million Egyptian

1960: 20 million Egyptian
2006: 73 million Egyptian
Egypt is the most populous North African and Arab country
Egypt is the third most populous African Country, after Nigeria and Ethiopia
The vast majority of Egyptians live on arable land near the Nile banks (40,000 km²)
98% of Egyptians live in 3% of the territory (Nile Delta and valley)
Egyptian Diaspora: three million in Libya, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe
Population density of Egypt: 96 inhabitants / square kilometre

Ahmed Mekky (Cairo, Egyptian Businessmen)

Ahmed Mekky Egyptian Businessman

Area of Egypt: 1,001,459 km²
The great regions of the Sahara desert, which make up most of the Egyptian territory, are sparsely populated
Governorates of Egypt
Egypt is a unitary semi-presidential Republic
Independence of Egypt from the United Kingdom in 1922
Sudan obtained are independence from the United Kingdom and Egypt in 1956
Calling cod of Egypte: 20
Country code top-level domain of Egypt: .eg
Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arabic-speaking writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Egypt was one of the first nation-states of the world in the tenth millennium BC
Egypt was the cradle of the Egyptian Civilisation
Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Numidian influences