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The Grand Sultanate of Egypt
Basics
Sultan: Azhar Saifullah
Crown Prince: Faiz Saifullah
Capital: Cairo
Total Population: 82,982,364
Population Density: 74 per sq km
Total Area: 1,001,449 sq km
% Water: 0.632%
GDP: $329.791 billion
Per Capita: $4,836
Currency: Egyptian pound
History
Gamal Abdel Nasser assumed power as President and gained full independence of Egypt from the United Kingdom on June 18, 1956. His nationalization of the Suez Canal on July 26, 1956 prompted the 1956 Suez Crisis. Three years after the 1967 Six Day War, in which Israel had invaded an occupied Sinai, Nasser died and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. Sadat switched Egypt's Cold War allegiance from the Soviet Union to the United States, expelling Soviet advisors in 1972, and launched the Infitah economic reform policy, while violently clamping down on religious and secular opposition alike. In 1973, Egypt, along with Syria, launched the October War, a surprise attack against the Israeli forces occupying the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights in an attempt to liberate the territory Israel had captured 6 years earlier. Both the US and the USSR intervened and a cease-fire was reached between both sides. In 1977, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel which led to the 1978 peace treaty in exchange for the complete Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Sadat's initiative sparked enormous controversy in the Arab world and led to Egypt's expulsion from the Arab League, which caused a massive uproar throughout Egypt. Sadat was assassinated in Cairo by a fundamentalist military soldier in 1981 and was succeeded by the incumbent Hosni Mubarak. A year later in 1982, Mubarak and his cabinet were overthrown in a coup d'étatby a young, high-ranking military officer named Azhar Saifullah. Saifullah immediately dissolved the republic and placed himself as sultan of Egypt. Immediately after this, Saifullah launched a pan-Arabism movement throughout Egypt which gained him much popular support and allowed Egypt to be re-admitted into the Arab League. Over the next decade, Saifullah called for several economic reforms that caused Egypt to adopt a more free-market economy. Although Saifullah distrusts NATO due to it being a Western power and the Warsaw Pact due to its communist ideals, he continues to negotiate with both to maintain peace and stability in Egypt.
People
Population: 82,982,364
Population growth rate: 1.721%
Birth rate: 22.53 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 5.11 deaths/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate:
total: 29.5 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 31.22 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 27.68 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.57 years
male: 69.04 years
female: 74.22 years
Total fertility rate: 2.77 children born/woman
Nationality:
noun: Egyptian(s)
adjective: Egyptian
Ethnic groups: Egyptian 98%, Berber, Nubian, Bedouin, and Beja 1%, Greek, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%
Religions: Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, other Christian 1%
Languages: Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
Literacy:
total population: 57.7%
male: 68.3%
female: 46.9%
Geography
Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula
Area:
total: 1,001,449 sq km
land: 995,449 sq km
water: 6,000 sq km
Land boundaries:
total: 2,665 km
border countries: Gaza Strip 11 km, Israel 266 km, Libya 1,115 km, Sudan 1,273 km
Coastline: 2,450 km
Climate: desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
Terrain: vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Qattara Depression -133 m
highest point: Mount Catherine 2,629 m
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc
Land use:
arable land: 2.92%
permanent crops: 0.5%
other: 96.58% (2005)
Irrigated land: 34,220 sq km (2003)
Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Military
Active Troops: 450,000
Reserve Troops: 984,000
Paramilitary: 405,000
Military expenditures: $2.44 billion (3.4% GDP)
Diplomacy
Allied
Friendly
Warm
Neutral
Cool
Hostile
Enemy
Basics
Sultan: Azhar Saifullah
Crown Prince: Faiz Saifullah
Capital: Cairo
Total Population: 82,982,364
Population Density: 74 per sq km
Total Area: 1,001,449 sq km
% Water: 0.632%
GDP: $329.791 billion
Per Capita: $4,836
Currency: Egyptian pound
History
Gamal Abdel Nasser assumed power as President and gained full independence of Egypt from the United Kingdom on June 18, 1956. His nationalization of the Suez Canal on July 26, 1956 prompted the 1956 Suez Crisis. Three years after the 1967 Six Day War, in which Israel had invaded an occupied Sinai, Nasser died and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. Sadat switched Egypt's Cold War allegiance from the Soviet Union to the United States, expelling Soviet advisors in 1972, and launched the Infitah economic reform policy, while violently clamping down on religious and secular opposition alike. In 1973, Egypt, along with Syria, launched the October War, a surprise attack against the Israeli forces occupying the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights in an attempt to liberate the territory Israel had captured 6 years earlier. Both the US and the USSR intervened and a cease-fire was reached between both sides. In 1977, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel which led to the 1978 peace treaty in exchange for the complete Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Sadat's initiative sparked enormous controversy in the Arab world and led to Egypt's expulsion from the Arab League, which caused a massive uproar throughout Egypt. Sadat was assassinated in Cairo by a fundamentalist military soldier in 1981 and was succeeded by the incumbent Hosni Mubarak. A year later in 1982, Mubarak and his cabinet were overthrown in a coup d'étatby a young, high-ranking military officer named Azhar Saifullah. Saifullah immediately dissolved the republic and placed himself as sultan of Egypt. Immediately after this, Saifullah launched a pan-Arabism movement throughout Egypt which gained him much popular support and allowed Egypt to be re-admitted into the Arab League. Over the next decade, Saifullah called for several economic reforms that caused Egypt to adopt a more free-market economy. Although Saifullah distrusts NATO due to it being a Western power and the Warsaw Pact due to its communist ideals, he continues to negotiate with both to maintain peace and stability in Egypt.
People
Population: 82,982,364
Population growth rate: 1.721%
Birth rate: 22.53 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 5.11 deaths/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate:
total: 29.5 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 31.22 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 27.68 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.57 years
male: 69.04 years
female: 74.22 years
Total fertility rate: 2.77 children born/woman
Nationality:
noun: Egyptian(s)
adjective: Egyptian
Ethnic groups: Egyptian 98%, Berber, Nubian, Bedouin, and Beja 1%, Greek, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%
Religions: Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, other Christian 1%
Languages: Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
Literacy:
total population: 57.7%
male: 68.3%
female: 46.9%
Geography
Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula
Area:
total: 1,001,449 sq km
land: 995,449 sq km
water: 6,000 sq km
Land boundaries:
total: 2,665 km
border countries: Gaza Strip 11 km, Israel 266 km, Libya 1,115 km, Sudan 1,273 km
Coastline: 2,450 km
Climate: desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
Terrain: vast desert plateau interrupted by Nile valley and delta
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Qattara Depression -133 m
highest point: Mount Catherine 2,629 m
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc
Land use:
arable land: 2.92%
permanent crops: 0.5%
other: 96.58% (2005)
Irrigated land: 34,220 sq km (2003)
Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Military
Active Troops: 450,000
Reserve Troops: 984,000
Paramilitary: 405,000
Military expenditures: $2.44 billion (3.4% GDP)
Diplomacy
Allied
Friendly
Warm
Neutral
Cool
Hostile
Enemy