Egypt’s population and land area

Egypt has a total area of ??1,000,145 square kilometers and a coastline of about 2,900 kilometers. The country is divided into 27 provinces. As of September 2022, Egypt's total population is approximately 104 million.

Egypt, the full name of the Arab Republic of Egypt, is an African country located in northeastern Africa. It is located at the transportation hub of the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Shortcuts to sea routes. It has a land area of ??1.001 million square kilometers, its capital is Cairo, and its official language is Arabic.

Egypt is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world. In 3200 BC, Menes unified Egypt and established the first slave state. In 525 BC, Egypt became a province of the Persian Empire. Over the next thousand years, Egypt was successively conquered by Greece and Rome. The Arabs invaded in 641 AD and became an important center of Islam. It was conquered by the Turks in 1517 and became a province of the Ottoman Empire. After the British occupation in 1882, it became a British "protectorate".

In 1922, Britain declared Egypt an independent country, but retained the right to deal with issues such as national defense, foreign affairs, and ethnic minorities. In 1953, the establishment of the Egyptian Revolution was announced. In February 1958, it merged with Syria to form the United Arab Republic. In 1961, there was a coup in Syria and it withdrew from the "UAE". In 1971 it was renamed the Arab Republic of Egypt. The Egyptian government is scheduled to move to the new administrative capital starting from December 1, 2021.

Egypt’s population problem:

Now Egypt has fallen into a situation where it exists only to support more people. Traditional factors such as disease, war, and immigration have been unable to have a major impact on Egypt's population growth. The solution is to completely urbanize, increase the cost of cultivating new members of the family, and reduce the fertility rate from a micro perspective.

Egypt’s population will reach 100 million this year, 95% of which live in the Nile Valley and Delta, accounting for less than 5% of the land area, similar to our Hainan Province. The reason Egypt is able to maintain food growth despite stagnant yields is mainly by cultivating new farmland on the edge of the desert.

However, Egypt’s water resources are limited. Several countries in the middle and lower reaches of the Nile River have distribution treaties on the Nile River. Egypt receives 55 billion cubic meters of water every year, which is similar to the annual runoff of the Yellow River, and more than 100 million people live in the Yellow River basin. Although northern China also suffers from serious water shortages, it is mainly characterized by serious overexploitation of groundwater, which can be replenished from monsoon precipitation. But Egypt is different. Most places in Egypt have a desert climate, with very little precipitation, and are almost entirely supplied by the Nile River.