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§ **Our country, Egypt, has a size of 386,198 square miles, the population is 52.9 million, and Egypt is located in the north eastern corner of Africa. **

§ ** Ethnicity- Egypt’s major ethnic group is Arab, 98% Arab and 2% other. Egypt is like all the other countries because the ethnic group is Arab, the Middle Eastern major ethnic group is Arab. **

§ **GDP Per Capita/Oil Wealth Per Capita-Egypt's oil wealth is $200 per person, the GDP is $800 per person. Egypt is third lowest in GDP and fifth lowest in Oil Wealth. **

Ø Language-Egypt's official language is Arabic. Like all the other countries in the Middle East, Arabic is the major language in Egypt. 



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v ** Life Expectancy-Egypt's approximate life expectancy is 60 years. Egypt's life expectancy is second to last compared to all the other countries. ** =====

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v **Literacy-In Egypt 62% of the men are literate, and 38% of the women are literate. The difference between the men and women literacy is average compared to all the other countries.** =====

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v **Population Density-Egypt's population and area compared to all the other countries in the Middle East is average. Egypt’s population density is third compared to all the other countries.** =====

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v <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1867c6; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">**Religion-The primary religion of Egypt is Islam/Muslim (Sunni) Egypt compares to the other countries in the Middle East by having the majority religion, Islam/Muslim (Sunni).**  =====




 * ** Urbanization-About 45% of Egypt is urbanized. Compared to all the other countries in the Middle East it is the second to last country that's urbanized **

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__<span style="font-size: 24pt; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">**Geography- ** __**<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #f79646; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6;"> Egypt uses the Nile River as a main water source, they are located in the Sahara Desert. Egypt also has many mountains even though that they are in the Desert. ** ===== <span style="font-size: 24pt; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">

__ Climate __ -Egypt has an arid climate. Egypt gets 2.5-7.4 inches of rain a year.



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**__ Culture (Music,Clothing,Entertainment) ____ -__** **The three types of music the Egyptians listen to is mostly Islam, Cairo and Outi. The types of cloths that they wear are light and cool clothing since they live in the dessert. The Men wear short light kilts and the women wear shift dresses. For entertainment they play a ton of games to keep them busy all day. They played wrestling, weightlifting, long jumping, swimming, rowing, fishing, hockey, handball, tug of war and they also like to do Gymnastics.**     ======

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 * __<span style="font-size: 24pt; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Food __<span style="font-size: 24pt; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">- <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 102;">Most Egyptians grow wheat and Barley. They also eat meat, you can walk down the street and go to a butcher shop and buy meat. Egyptians do not eat pigs, bacon, ham, pork and salami because they thought that pigs carried and disease called leprosy. If you ate anything that had leprosy on it, you could get really sick and also it maybe life threaten. **=====

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**__<span style="font-size: 24pt; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Raw Materials- __<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #66ff66; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Some Raw materials in Egypt that were the most popular was metal, copper, bronze, gold, silver and lead. The year that these materials were popular was circa (3150- 2300 BCE). **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #66ff66; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> =====




 * BY: MARK HARRIS & STEVE STROLLI **