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Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle). Egypt has an area of 1,002,450 km 2 (387,050 sq mi). The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 mi).
Aerial map showing the extent of Goshen. The land of Goshen (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן, ʾEreṣ Gōšen) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the area in Egypt that was allotted to the Hebrews by the Pharaoh during the time of Joseph (Book of Genesis, Genesis 45:9–10). They dwelt in Goshen up until the time of the Exodus, when they ...
Site of Faiyum Oasis (directly southwest of Cairo, listed as Al-Fayyum) on a map of Egypt Map showing Faiyum Oasis. The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Waḥet El Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt.
Within these zones, Egypt and Israel were permitted varying degrees of military buildup: Zone A: Between the Suez Canal and Line A. Egypt is permitted a mechanized infantry division with a total of 22,000 troops in Zone A. Zone B: Between Line A and Line B. Egypt is permitted four border security battalions to support the civilian police in Zone B.
James Rennell's map of Memphis and Cairo in 1799, showing the changes in the course of the Nile river In 1652 during his trip to Egypt, Jean de Thévenot identified the location of the site and its ruins, confirming the accounts of the old Arab authors for Europeans.
The location of Egypt An enlargeable map of Egypt. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Egypt: . Egypt (Arabic: مصر Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:, Arabic:) is a sovereign country located in eastern North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. [1]
Egypt produces its own energy, but has been a net oil importer since 2008 and is rapidly becoming a net importer of natural gas. [230] Egypt produced 691,000 bbl/d of oil and 2,141.05 Tcf of natural gas in 2013, making the country the largest non-OPEC producer of oil and the second-largest dry natural gas producer in Africa. In 2013, Egypt was ...
Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic Egyptian palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla [1] and it probably sank in the 4th century, when it succumbed to earthquakes and a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean near Crete in the ...