EGYPT

SUPERFICY :	1 001 440 square kilometers, twice as big as France.
CAPITAL :	Cairo, 9 million inhabitants, Big Cairo = 16 million inhabitants.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN:	Arabic (official language),English, French. German.
REGIME :	Presidential regime, president = General Mohammed Hosni Mubarak.
DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS :	Egyptians, Bedouins, Berber: 99% Greek, Nubians, Armenians: 1%
RELIGIONS :	Muslim : 94% Copt Christians, other : 6%
AGRICULTURE :	1^st producer of linen, 5^th producer of donkeys, 10^th producer of oranges, olives and sorghum 11^th producer of cotton. Cultivated areas only cover 2 % of the whole territory.
MINING :	Egypt mines a lot of iron and new deposits have recently been discovered in the North. Between 1906 and 1963, Egypt mined a lot of gold, and recently, new gold deposits have been discovered in the oriental desert.
TOURISM :	Egypt suffered from a loss of 700 million dollars in 1998 because of the gunfire next to the Hatchepsut temple in November 1997. But Egypt is only the 35^thin the World classification of the most visited countries, and the first one is France (right after come the USA and Spain).Egypt only won 3838 million dollars, and France won 28316 million dollars in 1997.
UNEMPLOYMENT :	10.8 % (less than France : 12.3 % )