Egypt
Fact File - Egypt
Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt
Size: 386,660 square miles (1,001,450 square kilometers); about one and a half times the size of Texas
Population: 81,713,517 as of July 2008
Capital: Cairo
Official Language: Arabic
Climate: Desert; hot, dry summers with mild winters
Currency: Egyptian pound
Literacy rate: 71.4%
Products: Cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruit, crude oil and petroleum products, textiles, chemicals
