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Egypt Geography
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Where is Egypt? Click on the video to find out where Egypt is located!
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Population:
===The population of Egypt in July 2010 was estimated to be 80,471,869. When ranked and compared with the rest of the world it is ranked 16th largest population. About 99% of the population lives within the Nile Valley and delta.===

Natural Resources:

 * ===petroleum===
 * ===natural gas===
 * ===water===
 * ===iron ore===
 * ===phosphate===
 * ===manganese===
 * ===limestone===
 * ===gypsum===
 * ===tlac===
 * ===asbestos===
 * ===lead===
 * ===zinc===

** Natural Topography: **

 * ===Desert country, with the River Nile dividing the country unevenly in two.===
 * ===The Suez Canal together with the Sinai Peninsula provide a third division.===
 * ===landis mainly made up of flat desert, without any vegetation apart from the few oases that have survived in the Western Desert.===
 * ===Over 90% of the land area is covered by deserts - the Libyan Desert to the west, the Sahara and Nubian Deserts to the south and the Arabian Desert to the east.===
 * ===More than 90% of the population is centered around the River Nile. It is only the Nile valley and the Nile Delta that is both habitable and arable.([|Travel.com])===

Climate:

 * ===Very dry, almost no rainfall===
 * ===Days are commonly warm or hot===
 * ===Nights are cool===
 * ===Egypt has only two seasons: a mild winter from November to April and a hot summer from May to October. The only differences between the seasons are variations in daytime temperatures and changes in prevailing winds.===
 * ===In the coastal regions, temperatures range between an average minimum of 14° C in winter and an average maximum of 30° C in summer.([|Tour Egypt])===