Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Cairo
- Region
- Africa, Northern Africa
- Population
- 118,365,995 (2025)
- Area
- 1,001,450 km²
- Currency
- Egyptian pound (EGP)
- Languages
- Arabic, English, French
- Calling code
- +20
- Internet domain
- .eg, .مصر
- ISO codes
- EG, EGY, 818
- Time zone
- UTC+2:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Egypt covers about 1,001,450 square kilometres. By area it ranks 31st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Mauritania and a little larger than Tanzania. It shares a land border with 4 neighbours: Israel, Libya, Palestine, Sudan. Its centre lies at about 27° north, 30° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 118 million people live in Egypt (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 13th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 1.4 percent of the world's people. On average there are 118 people to each square kilometre. About 43 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 72 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Arabic, English, French. A person from Egypt is called Egyptian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Egyptian pound (code EGP, symbol £). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 365 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,086 for each person (2025).
Time
Egypt uses one time zone, UTC+2:00 (Africa/Cairo). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Cairo | 9,606,916 |
| Alexandria | 5,263,542 |
| Giza | 4,367,343 |
| Shubrā al Khaymah | 1,240,289 |
| Port Said | 780,515 |
| Suez | 699,541 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Northern Africa
Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.