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Monday, August 25, 2014

Egypt


Egypt is located 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 wings of Asian and African bordered by Libya to the west and Sudan in the south, and Palestine and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea from Middle. The topography of Egypt consists of four sections: the first agricultural land and the Nile River, a major natural features of Egypt, and mention here the words of Herodotus «Egypt is the gift of the Nile» is the longest river in the world and is «6690» kilometers and Delta takes the form of a triangle head in the south, where the branches of the Nile into two branches: Damietta and Rosetta, east and west, where Delta is characterized by fertile soil. The second section is the Western Sahara, stretching from the Nile Valley and Delta to the Libyan border in the west to the borders of Sudan from the south and covers an area of ​​68 percent of the area of ​​Egypt. And the third Eastern Desert «east of the Nile» until the Red Sea area and 22% of the area of ​​Egypt. Section IV Sinai Peninsula, an area of ​​6% of the area of ​​Egypt.

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