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This is a list of governorates of Egypt by GDP and GDP per capita. The Egyptian pound (EGP) has been converted to the international dollar using the IMF's Purchasing Power Parity conversion rate (one International dollar per 4.538 EGP in 2021). [1]
Zamalek (Arabic: الزمالك pronounced [ez.zæˈmæːlek], al zamalek) is a qism (ward) within the West District (hayy gharb) in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is an affluent district on a man-made island which geologically is part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma (Blind Canal) cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west bank ...
Alexandria Region. Delta Region. Suez Canal Region. North Upper Egypt Region. Central Upper Egypt Region. Southern Upper Egypt Region. There are seven regional units, containing the following governorates. [5] [1] [2] In 2014, plans were discussed to expand the seven to eleven but it didn't happen.
The area of the Valley of the Kings, in Luxor, Egypt, has been a major area of modern Egyptological exploration for the last two centuries. Before this, the area was a site for tourism in antiquity (especially during Roman times). [1] This area illustrates the changes in the study of ancient Egypt, beginning as antiquity hunting and ending with ...
The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 mi). Egypt has more than 2,900 km (1,800 mi) of coastline on the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, and the Gulf of Aqaba. It has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 263,451 km 2 (101,719 sq mi).
Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$57.2 million in 2023). [14] [15] Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings by ...
The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world.It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 CE and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Module:Location map/data/Northern Egypt. Module:Location map/data/Northern Egypt is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Northern Egypt. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.