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Lies
in the eastern north side of the Africa continent, on
its northern coasts lies the
Mediterranean and on its eastern coasts lies the Red
Sea |
1. Geographical
location: |
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Nearly
about one million km2. |
2. Area : |
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It's
area 40000 km2 about
4 % From The Total
Area of Egypt . |
A- Valley & Delta: |
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It's
area 280000 km2 about 28 % From The Total
Area of Egypt. |
B- Eastern desert: |
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It's
area 680000 km2 about 68 % From The Total
Area of Egypt |
C- Western desert: |
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Its
area is 60000km2 . |
3. Sinai Peninsula: |
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It
connects directly the Mediterranean with the Red Sea,
its length is 195km & its width is 360m.
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4. Suez channel: |
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In the
Egyptian land is 1532km. |
5. Length of River Nile: |
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Its
area is about 4000km2 and its length is
500km, the Lake width average is 8km, and the storage
measure is 164 billion m3. |
6. Nasser lake: |
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Its
area is about 19500km2 and its bottom is 134m
under sea surface level. |
7.AL Katara Sinkage: |
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Its
area is 700km2 and its bottom is 42m under
sea surface level. |
8. Al Rayan Sinkage: |
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Its
length is 60km, its width is 10km and its bottom is 23
under sea surface level. |
9.Wadi AL Natron Sinkage: |
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Its
length is 500km & its width is between 160km &180km. |
10.The greatest sand
sea: |
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Its
area is 12000km2. |
11. Al Fayom Sinkage: |
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Its
length is 45km, its width average is 9km, its area is
214km2, its depth is 7.6m & its bottom
declines from sea surface level about 45m. |
12 . Qaroon Lake: |