intersting facts in Egypt

Note that some of the information (gas prices!) can be outdated since we made this page after visiting the country for the last time!
Official name	Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah (Arab Republic of Egypt)
Area	1,001,450 square kilometer (24x Holland), including the Sinai; only 66,000 km2 is inhabitable.
Number of inhabitants	74.7 million (July 2003);
Population density	74 people per square kilometer when calculated for the whole country, but 1132 per km2 inhabitable area.
Capital	Cairo
Monetary unit	Pound (EGP), divided into 100 piaster. 1 pound is about € 0,14 (Jan. 2009); 1 € = about EGP 7,33. (1 € = $ 1.24; 1 Dollar = € 0.7; Rate in Jan. 2009)
Fuel prices	Gas: € 0.25; Diesel: only € 0.10 per liter
License plate of cars	ET
Telephone country prefix	20
Internet country code	.eg
Time difference	GMT+2; one hour later than in Holland
Road network	Fairly good in the inhabitable regions
Prices in general	Prices are cheaper than in Europe, except for the obvious touristic places
The best in Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah (Arab Republic of Egypt)	Well, there are many beautiful things to see, like the magnificent antiquities (tombs in the Valley of the Kings, temple of Hatshepsut) but the Nile, especially near Aswan, is also a pretty sight.