Geography of Egypt - Travel information

Egypt covers a territory of 1 millions square kilometres and his climate is said to be semi-desetic. The only part of Egypt that has always been good for human settlements is along the Nile river. Beside this small band of fertile ground, the Delta in the North and some sporadic oasis in the desert, the entire territory of Egypt is covered by desert: Libyan desert (western desert) – Arabic desert (eastern desert) in the east – The Sinaï (located in North-east of Egypt). Like every well in the world where we find desert (see Mongolia and Morocco) every human stellement is strongly linked to the landscapes and capacity of finding enough water to survive.

Many centuries ago, we used to cut Egypt territory in 2 pars. The High Egypt (which was in fact the actual south part) and and Low Egypt (which is the North actual part) This conception of High and Low Egypt was linked to the direction where the water of Nile River were going. These day, we also talk about the Middle Egypt, refering to the part where is the city Assiut.

Concerning the physionomy of the country, the highest points of Egypt Sinaï Mountain (2285m) and Gebel Chayeb (2880m). AS everybody know, the biggest river of Egypt (as well as the entire world) is Nile who runs for 6671 km. The principals cities of Egypt are Cairo (+25 millions inhabitants), Alexandria (6 millions inhabitants), Port Saïd (470 000 inhabitants) and Aswan (240 000 inhabitants).