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Ancient Egypt

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The Capital of Egypt is

Cairo

200

The reason behind building the Great Pyramids by our Pharaohs

Egypt's pharaohs expected to become gods in the afterlife. To prepare for the next world they erected temples to the gods and massive pyramid tombs for themselves—filled with all the things each ruler would need to guide and sustain himself in the next world

300

The formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt is 

Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

The hieroglyphs was exclusively used for inscriptions carved or painted on temple walls.

400

Top 3 Religions originated in Egypt

An overview of the religious landscape of Egypt

• Islam (official) (90.3%)
• Christianity (9.6%)
• Other (0.1%)*

* Others are some other denomination of Christianity. 

500

Interesting Facts about Pharos

• Cats were very special in ancient Egypt.

Egyptian Civilization

100

Widely Spoken Language in Egypt

Arabic, however there are many foreign languages spoken in Egypt as well. 

The reason behind this fact is that Egypt was colonized by the British. Hence, the English language is widely spoken.

Moreover, another widely popular language in Egypt is the French language. The reason behind this is that the French also had an influence in Egypt during the colonization period

200

Number of presidents in Egypt throughout the time.

1. Mohamed Naguib ( 1 Year)

2. Gamal Abdel Nasser ( 14 Years)

3. Anwar Sadat ( 11 Years)

4. Hosni Mubarak ( 29 years)

5. Mohamed Morsi ( 1 Year)

6. Abdel Fattah El Sissi ( 7 Years)

 

300

Number of Public Holidays in Egypt

14 Occasions

- Bank Holiday ( January)

- Christmas Day Eastern -  (January)

- Police Day -  (January)

- Easter Sunday ( April)

- Sham El Nessim ( April)

- Sinai Liberation Day ( April)

- Labour Day ( May)

- Revolution ( June)

- Eid Al Fetr ( June)

- New Revolution ( July)

- Eid Al Adha ( August)

- Armed Forces Day ( October)

- Prophet Birthday ( October)

- Islam New Year ( November)

* Liable to change

400

Number of Governorates in Egypt

27

500

The Size of the Egyptian Economy

GDP in Egypt is expected to reach 280.00 USD Billion by the end of 2021, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations

The country's economy became the second largest in Africa after Nigeria regarding nominal GDP and 34th in worldwide ranking as of 2020