Egypt country profile

Lead Author: Maggie Surface (other articles)
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Lakhdar Boukerrou (other articles)
Last Updated: June 2, 2008

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Nile river near Luxor, Egypt (Photograph by Gene Wampler)
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Nile river near Luxor, Egypt (Photograph by Gene Wampler)

  1. General overview
  2. Water in Egypt
  3. Energy in Egypt
  4. Human Development Index
  5. Places:
    1. Suez Canal, Egypt
    2. Ecoregions:
      1. Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
      2. Mediterranean Basin
      3. Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
      4. Nile Delta flooded savanna
      5. North Saharan steppe and woodlands
      6. Persian Gulf
      7. Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
      8. Sahara desert
      9. Saharan halophytics
      10. Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
  6. Egyptians of note
    1. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

 

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Surface, Maggie (Lead Author); Lakhdar Boukerrou (Topic Editor). 2008. "Egypt country profile." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth June 2, 2008; Retrieved November 7, 2009]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Egypt_country_profile>
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