Arab Republic of Egypt
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Basic information- Capital: Cairo.- Most 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, Dakahlia, Hometown .- Area: 997.738 sq km.- Population: about 75 million people.- Official language: Arabic language and used English and French languages in business transactions.- National Day: Holiday in the Revolution, July 23 (the 1952).- Time: two hours GMT.- Currency: Egyptian pound = 100 piastres = 1000 penny- Electricity: 220 volts.- Weekend: Friday to government departments and the private sector on Friday or Sunday.- Working hours: 8 am to (2) pm, while banks, it is 9 to 1.30 pm and from 10 to 12 on Sunday and bank holiday on Friday and Saturday.- Visas: Required for all foreign visitors except nationals of Arab countries.- Ports and airports: Cairo International Airport at a distance of 22.5 km from the center of the country and the Alexandria Airport just 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 is composed of 26 governorates in addition to the Luxor City Council .. The governorates are: Dakahlia, Red Sea, Lake, Fayoum, Western, Alexandria, Ismailia, Giza, Menoufiya, Menya, Cairo, Qaliubiya, New Valley, East, Suez, Aswan, Assiut, Beni Suef, Port Said, Damietta, South Sinai, Kafr Shaykh, Matruh, Qina, north Sinai, Sohag.- Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, iron ore, manganese, tin, zinc, gypsum, asbestos.- Climate: The climate of Egypt is a moderate total and there is almost half of the northern climate prevailing in the Mediterranean basin variable depending on the four seasons in the Western Sahara dry weather prevails not exceed ten percent humidity. And be hot and dry summers and cool rainy winters.
Enjoy the Egyptian tourism industry of great diversity in the product offered, based on a broad base of historical and cultural heritage and natural elements, environmental and rich artistic and cultural, not Egypt is limited to tourism impacts, but also accommodate tourist destinations include resorts, beaches, diving and medical tourism and tourism deserts, safaris and eco-tourism and congress tourism and tourism, sports tourism and shopping festivals and tourism:
- Tourism impactsEgypt between the walls of third world, including the effects of it as the biggest open museum in the world history of Egypt is the history of human civilization where Humanity The Egyptian civilization preceded the civilizations of ancient peoples of the world .. Civilization, a leader in innovations and Amairha, arts, and falls under this type of tourism:
- Historical tourismInclude ancient Egyptian, Romanian, Greek, and in the richness of Egypt in the components of religious tourism, where Cairo is famous as the city of a thousand minarets and its models, which vary between the Mamluk and Fatimid and Ayyubid and others, as well as churches and monasteries, and in particular the Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai.As for tourism, geology and reserves Tabieipvvi Egypt dozens of nature reserves and unique product varies according to environment, desert or the Nile.
- Tourism beaches and water sportsEgypt has vast areas of the beaches along the Red Sea and the Mediterranean supported by a temperate climate most months of the year, allowing an environment conducive to the exercise of all Ome water sports, diving and sport fishing, sailing and underwater photography.
- Medical TourismSpread in Egypt, many of the sulfur springs and mineral that have therapeutic properties heal many diseases, bone diseases, gastrointestinal tract, kidney and skin diseases and Egypt is considered one of the richest environments, resource-related values, therapeutic, which attracts patients and convalescents from all over the world to hospital and following are the major cities: Helwan - Ain stall - Ain Sokhna - Hurghada and Safaga - Fayoum - New Valley - Aswan - Sinai, where Egypt has many areas that have elements of that tourism from the sands of the same medicinal properties and water sulfur (or alkaline moderate) and an atmosphere free of moisture, allowing the establishment of medical centers by for the treatment of many diseases.
- Tourism FestivalsInclude the agenda of Egyptian tourism more than 30 different festivals and appropriate effectively contribute to the revitalization of tourism in Egypt.
- Tourism ConferenceEgypt has succeeded recently in attracting many international conferences, professional, whether those of the Federation of Egyptian tourism companies States active in tourism, or those associated with the activities of different professional has been the signing of a cooperation protocol between the Centre for Information and Decision Support and the museum sector of the Supreme Council of Antiquities to establish a center of information for the museum sector and includes databases for these museums, including the Egyptian Museum, Islamic Museum, the Coptic Museum.Is proud to Egypt the establishment of many of the festivals which are popular rally of the most important song festival of the Third International, the International Festival of fishing in Port Said, the first international festival of equestrian, Marathon International Egypt III in Luxor, cycling race Rally of the Pharaohs, starring Al-Ahram International Squash.
- Nile cruisesRanging from quick trips in small boats, trips through the Nile cruise, the end of the floating hotels.- Safari, deserts and TourismIs a strongly emerging patterns of tourism at the global level, characterized by a number of rituals and laws followed by the pioneers and loved ones a fraction of the familiar and a rebellion against the life of hotels and civilian aircraft.
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