Egypt

Facts

What the numbers say about Egypt

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 17.0× the size of Egypt.
• At 114 people per km², Egypt is the 58th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 26°N is drawn about 1.2× too large in area, so Egypt looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Egypt's main territory stretches about 1,080 km north to south and 1,230 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,010,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,001,000 km², to within 2%.

How Egypt measures up

Egypt holds 3.3% of the land area and 8.1% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Northern Africa it is the 4th largest of 7.

Where Egypt sits

• Egypt's centre lies at 26.5°N, 29.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 2,940 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 22°N to 32°N, about 1,070 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Egypt had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Egypt would have 1.25 billion people. It has 114.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Egypt would have 3.7 million people. It has 114.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 72.4 million.

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