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مصر

العربية [1]مصر - جمهورية مصر العربية

الاسم الرسمي للدولة طبقا لدستورها هو جمهورية مصر العربية و يترجم في المحافل الدولية إلى.

مصر دولة تقع في أقصي الشمال الشرقي لقارة أفريقيا، و تطل على كل من الساحل الجنوبي الشرقي للبحر المتوسط و الساحل الشمالي الغربي للبحر الأحمر بمساحة إجمالية تبلغ مليون كم² تقريبا. مصر دولة أفريقية غير أن جزءا من أراضيها، و هي شبه جزيرة سيناء، يقع في قارة آسيا.

تشترك مصر بحدود من الغرب مع ليبيا و من الجنوب مع السودان و من الشمال الشرقي مع إسرائيل وقطاع غزة، ويفصلها البحر الأحمر عن كل من الأردن و السعودية، و تمر عبر أرضها قناة السويس التي تفصل الجزء الآسيوي منها عن الجزء الافريقي.

مصر أكبر الدول العربية سكاناً،و ذات الترتيب الخامس عشر عالمياً من حيث عدد السكان الذين يعيش أغلبهم على ضفتي النيل و إلى جانب المنطقة الساحلية. تشكل الصحراء غالبية مساحتها و هي غير معمورة. معظم السكان في مصر حاليا من الحضر يعيشون في مدن ذات كثافة سكانية عالية، ربعهم في مدينة القاهرة الكبرى، أكبر مدن أفريقيا و الشرق الأوسط

Coptic Kīmi
Other languages Français - L'Égypte, officiellement la République arabe d'Égypte, est un pays d'Afrique du nord-est. La partie nord-est du pays constituée par la péninsule du Sinaï se situe cependant en Asie. Sa capitale est Le Caire, sa langue officielle est l'arabe, sa langue parlée est l'égyptien (arabe dialectal) et sa monnaie est la livre égyptienne.
English Egypt - Arab Republic of Egypt

The Arab Republic of Egypt is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,560 square miles), Egypt borders ► Libya to the west, ► Sudan to the south, and ► Israel and the ► Gaza Strip to the northeast; on the north and the east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively.


Short name  Egypt
Official  name Arab Republic of Egypt
Status Independent country since 1922
Location Northern Africa
Capital القاهرة (Cairo)[2]
Population 78,887,007 inhabitants
Area 1,001,449 km²
Major  languages Arabic (official)
Major  religions Islam, Coptic Christianity
More information Egypt, Geography of Egypt, History of Egypt and Politics of Egypt
More  images Egypt - Egypt (Category).

General maps

Eg-map.png Map of Egypt
Egypt Map.jpg Map of Egypt
محافظات مصر.PNG Governorates of Egypt
Egypt governorates english.png Old Governorates of Egypt
Egypt regions and boundaries.png Regions and boundaries
Egypt markazes.svg Markazes of Egypt

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Egypt, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Egypt.

Ancient Egypt map-en.svg svg Map of ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt.png Map of Ancient Egypt (png)
Ancient Egypt map pl.svg Map of Ancient Egypt (Polish)
Ancient Egypt old and middle kingdom-es.svg Map of Ancient Egypt, Old and Middle Kingdoms (Spanish)
Fertile Crescent map.png Fertile Crescent
Vordynastik.png Predynastic Egypt ((1st to 2nd Dynasties; until ca. 27th century BC)
Altes Reich.png Old Kingdom of Egypt (3rd to 6th Dynasties; 27th to 22nd centuries BC)
AlterOrient.png A map of Egypt and the Akkadian Empire around 2000 BCE
Hitt Egypt Perseus.png Egypt Empire
AlterOrient2.png Egypt Empire
Mittleres Reich.png Middle Kingdom of Egypt (11th to 14th Dynasties; 20th to 17th centuries BC)
Zweite Zwischenzeit.png Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (14th to 17th Dynasties; 17 to 16th centuries BC)
Neues Reich.png New Kingdom of Egypt (18th to 20th Dynasties; 16th to 11th centuries BC)
Nomes of Ancient Egyptx400px This image depict de nomes (landmarks) of ancient egypt
Map of Assyria.png The Assyrian Empire in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
Spätzeit.png Late Period of ancient Egypt ((26th to 31st Dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC))
Deportationofjewsbyassyrian.jpg Deportation of the Jews by the Assyrian Empire
Carte-Empire néo-assyrien.png Neo-Assyrian Empire
Map of the Achaemenid Empire.jpg The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
Achaemenid-empire-500BCE.png The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Carte empire achéménide.png The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Persian Empire, 490 BC.gif The Persian Achaemenid Empire
Griechische Zeit.png Greek Egypt ((332 BC to 30 BC)
Map of Armenia and Albania (1760).jpg The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE
Map-alexander-empire.png Map of the Empire of Alexander
MacedonEmpire.jpg Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE
Alexander den stores rike, Nordisk familjebok.jpg Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)
Diadochen1.png Hellenistic successor states:
   Kingdom of Ptolemy
   Kingdom of Cassander
   Kingdom of Lysimachus
   Kingdom of Seleucus
   Epirus
Other states:
   Rome
Diadochi.png Idem.
Hellenistic world 200BC blank.png Hellenistic world in 200 BCE
CarthageMap.png Location of Carthage and Carthaginian influence sphere before the First Punic War (264 BC)
Roman expansion 264 BC Shepherd.jpg Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present Egypt
Map of Rome and Carthage at the start of the Second Punic War.svg The Roman Republic and Carthago in 218, just prior to the Second Punic War
Hannibal route of invasion.gif Hannibals invasion in the Punic Wars
Roman Empire.png The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;
   133 BC
   44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)
   AD 14 (death of Augustus)
   117 (maximum extension)
Romia Imperio.png Map of the Roman Empire in 116
Roman empire.png Roman Empire in 117
Roman empire 395.jpg Roman Empire divided 395
Theodosius I's empire.png The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.
Rome406.jpeg Division of the Roman Empire in 406
628px-Western and Eastern Roman Empires 476AD(3).PNG Eastern and Western Roman Empires, c.476
EasternRomanEmpire.png Egypt under the rule of the Byzantine Empire
Justinien 527-565.svg Byzantine Empire under emperor Justinianus
Justinian Byzanz.png Byzantine Empire under emperor Justinianus
Byzantium550.png Byzantine Empire 550
Christian Nubia.png Christian Nubia Kingdoms
Sassanid Empire 620.png The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.
Arabische Rijk.jpg Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Age of Caliphs.png Age of the Caliphs
Califate 750.jpg Caliphate around 750
Ayyubids1189.png Ayyubid rule in 1189
Ayyubid.png The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190
Ottoman small animation.gif Conquest by the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman empire 1481-1683.jpg Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman 1683.png Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
OttomanEmpire1801.jpg Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801
1948 arab israeli war - May15-June10.jpg 1948 Arab-Israeli War
Israel-1er-juin-1948.jpg June 1948
Debut-octobre-1948.jpg October 1948
1948 arab israeli war - Oct.jpg October 1948
1948 arab israeli war - Dec22-Jan07.jpg Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949
1948-arab-israeli-war-Dec22-jan07-detail.jpg Dec 22, 1948 - Jan 07, 1949 (detail)
1956 Suez war - conquest of Sinai.jpg Suez Crisis 1956: Conquest of Sinai
Esl.PNG Federation of Arab Republic (Egypt, Libya and Syria
LocationUnitedArabRepublic.png United Arab Republic
1967 Six Day War - Battle of Golan Heights.jpg 1967 Six-Day War: Battle of Golan Heights
1967 Six Day War - The Jordan salient.jpg Six-Day War: The Jordan salient
1967 Six Day War - conquest of Sinai 7-8 June.jpg Six-Day War: Conquest of Sinai 7-8 June
1973 Yom Kippur War - Golan heights theater.jpg 1973 Yom Kippur war 1973: Golan heights theater
1973 sinai war maps.jpg Yom Kippur war
1973 sinai war maps2.jpg Yom Kippur war

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.

Egypt sudan under british control.jpg Map of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Ägypten Dar Fur und Abessinien.jpg Map of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in 1892

Satellite maps

Egypt sat.png Satellite map

Notes and references

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  1. Romanization: Miṣr, (Máṣr in Egyptian Arabic) - Jumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah.
  2. Romanization: Al-Qāhirah.

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