Is the capital of Arab Republic of Egypt
Major Cities: Alexandria, Port Said, Suez, Ismailia, Tanta, Damietta, Aswan, Luxor, Asyut, Zagazig, Sohag, Fayoum, Arish, Sharm el-Sheikh, Marsa Matruh, Minya, Menoufiya, Beni Suef, Mariot, Hurghada, Cairo, Mahalla.
Area: 997,738 sq km.
Population: about 70.7 million people (2002)
Official language: Arabic language and used English and French languages in business transactions.
National Day: Festival of the revolution in July 23 (by 1952).
Time: two hours + Greenwich Mean Time.
Currency: Egyptian pound = 100 piastres = 1000 penny
Electricity: 220 volts.
Phone: international line 02
Weekend: Friday to government departments and the private sector on Friday or Sunday.
Hours: from 8 am to (2) pm, while the banks, it is 9 to 1.30 pm and from 10 to 12 on Sunday and bank holiday on Friday and Saturday.
Visas:
Mandatory for all foreign visitors except nationals of Arab countries.
Ports and airports: Cairo International Airport, about 22.5 kilometers from downtown and the airport of Alexandria, about 8 km from the center and there are airports in all of Aswan and Luxor, Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh and several other airports. There is the main port in Alexandria and there are other ports in Port Said, Suez and Damietta.
Administrative division: Egypt composed of 26 governorates in addition to the City Council of Luxor .. The provinces are: Painting, Red Sea, Lake, Fayoum, Gharbia, Alexandria, Ismailia, Giza, Menoufiya, Menya, Cairo, Cairo, New Valley, Eastern, Suez, Aswan, Asyut, Beni Suef, Port Said, Damietta, South Sinai, Kafr El - Shaykh, Matruh, Qina, north Sinai, Sohag.
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, iron ore, manganese, tin, zinc, gypsum, asbestos.
Change:
Egypt's climate is moderate and there is total almost half of the northern climate in the Mediterranean basin variable depending on the four seasons in the Western Sahara dry weather prevails not exceed the rate of moisture ten percent. And be hot and dry summers and cool rainy winter.
Geographic profile
Egypt lies between latitudes 22 and 31.5 north of the equator and between longitudes 25 and 37 east of Greenwich which occupies the northeast corner of the continent of Africa and in the heart of the Arab world between the wings, Asian, African and is bordered by Libya to the west and south Sudan, Palestine and the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea north of east. And topography of Egypt consists of four sections: the first agricultural land and the Nile River is the most important physical features of Egypt, and mentioned here because Herodotus «Egypt the gift of the Nile» which is the longest river in the world The «6690» Delta miles and take the form of a triangle head in the south, where the Nile branches into two branches: Damietta and rational east and west, where Delta is characterized by fertile soil. The second section is the period of Western Sahara and the Nile Valley and Delta to the Libyan border in the west to the borders of Sudan from the south and an area of 68 percent of Egypt's area. And III of the Eastern Desert «east of the Nile» to the Red Sea and an area of 22% of the area of Egypt. Section IV is the Sinai Peninsula, an area of 6% of the area of Egypt
Cairo
Is the capital of Arab Republic of Egypt and the largest city in Egypt and Africa is divided into three main tourist areas: Islamic Cairo, which includes many Islamic monuments such as mosques, markets, palaces and walls, and the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif mosque which was built during the Fatimid caliphate, as well as a minaret as well as museums such as the Museum of Islamic Art located in the Bab field, which includes 80 A masterpiece of Islamic civilization is the most famous in the world's largest Quran handwritten and a group of Fatimid ceramics and drawing of the Holy Ka'aba on slabs of porcelain to a group of incense burners and candlesticks, and there Jawhara Palace Museum, built by Muhammad Ali and also a museum Manial Palace which was built by Prince Mohamed Ali Tawfiq and remodeled between architecture combines Turkish, Arabic and Persian, and a rare collection of manuscripts and artifacts of the Ottoman era.
The other parts of Cairo, a Christian area of Ancient Egypt are found where there are outstanding church built on the south tower of the Fortress of Babylon, the headquarters of the Roman army in ancient Egypt, was built on the model also Albasilki Abe Srjp Church, where she settled after fleeing the Holy Family to Egypt and has three structures and lounge with 12 a column decorated with pictures of the disciples of Christ and the Church of the Virgin peace be upon them, known as the «coercive Reehan» and the Church of St. George, which was built in the thirteenth century and the Church of St. Barbara, built in the early Islamic era, and there are other Christian shrines like a tree located Matareyah Virgin and the Coptic Museum, which contains books rare up to seven thousand books on art Coptic and Coptic language and history of Egypt during the Coptic era.
The third section of Cairo Pharaonic tourist is online and include the city north of Cairo, the city of Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt and the most important landmarks the pyramids of Cheops, Khafre and Menkaure, the Sphinx, and boats and the effects of the sun Oherm Unas at Saqqara, and the graves of the nobility, and the effects of a dead hostage, the Statue of Ramses II and the Temple of Ptah Temple of mummification White Calf and Trinity Memphis granite and the Temple of Ramses II and the first T-zone and the effects of Abu Sir and the effects of Dahshur.
In Cairo, Egyptian Museum there, which includes more than 150 thousand artifacts, before and hundreds of thousands of pieces in stock.
The assets of the Museum of the effects of a tomb of Tutankhamun also includes a statue of King Khafre, and the treasures of King Menkaure and princesses of the Twelfth Dynasty, and in the pyramids area, the project sound and light tells the history of Egypt in several languages within one hour of time, interspersed with music and other influences, and there are a number of other museums in Cairo.
Bey and the Sultan Ghori, mosques Amr ibn al-Aas and Ibn Tulun and Sultan Hassan and Muhammad Ali.
Ramadan in Cairo .. Another type of tourism
As well as tourism in the spirit of faith that opens Rehab prospects in the holy month of Ramadan, the holy month of days in Old Cairo special flavor is rarely seen in the capitals of all Middle ..
And times to enjoy the tourism is concentrated between the Ramadan breakfast and watch suhoor in the areas of the field-Hussein, Khan al-Khalili in central Cairo, there could be a fasting person to deal with a heavy dose of history and splendor through the surrounding historic buildings. If you want more and went to Sayyida Zaynab district to see and feel the real celebration for the month of Ramadan, where people decorated their streets narrow, paper decorations, but exhilarating, lanterns above the majority of balconies and free street corner or alley vendors pickles, bread and drink licorice, all of the axioms of Ramadan banquets.
Among the areas that turn this month to what might be called Ramadan tourism area of the citadel which is the focus of any visit by a tourist to Islamic Cairo.
In the field of Saladin, the bottom of the castle, which is free throughout the year of the hammocks and tents welcome visitors various celebrations, tourists can to win Ramadan Other Ramadan dawns by popular cafe goers adjacent to the Sultan Hassan Mosque and from there get the pioneer in on the fun is priceless and overlooking the scene of the mosques of Al Rifai and Sultan Hassan and worshipers and children celebrating Ramadan and sellers of oriental sweets.
With a cup of tea «Almnana» of your chair will allow you to follow-up giant television screens the main series that revolves mostly around images of life in Egypt before the thirty or forty years or more .. If you are a fan of excellence, the Egyptian Opera House offers you a program full of songs and music with nature Ramadan .. The «narrative Castle» provides a very interesting presentations on Saturday, Monday and Wednesday for Sufi music. And ends on tourism with the date of Ramadan Suhoor which repeat the scenes of the round compact and beverage Almnanap does not stop only with the ears of dawn.
