Egypt
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Egypt is a country in the northeast of Africa. Its capital city is Cairo. Egypt is famous for its very old monuments, such as the Pyramids.
Egypt has been an independent country since 1922. It is a member of the United Nations and the Arab League. It was a republic from 1952 after the revolution of 1952 by the leader gamal abd alnaasar
It is a large country, but a large portion of Egypt is desert. Most people live in areas around the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Nile River. This includes the cities of Alexandria, Aswan, and Port Said. Not many people live in the desert areas. Today, Egypt has about 70 million people.
Egypt is divided into 27 areas, called Governorates of Egypt. The Egyptian Parliament sits in Cairo and makes laws for the whole country. Today, the President is Hosni Mubarak.
Today, the people of Egypt are mostly Sunni Muslims, though in the past, many people were Christian. There are still some Christians in Egypt today. Many of these belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church, but there is a growing Evangelical Christian movement in the larger cities.
Many famous people are from Egypt. Some of these include Omar Sharif, who was an international actor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was the first person from Africa to lead the United Nations, and four Nobel Prize winners: Anwar Sadat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978, Naguib Mahfouz, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, Ahmed Zewail, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999, and Mohamed ElBaradei, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Egypt's climate is very extreme. It is either very cold or very hot, depending on the time.
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