Map of Egypt

Egypt is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 27.0° N, 30.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Israel, Libya, Palestine and Sudan — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Egypt is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Egypt shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Egypt covers about 1,002,450 km² (387,048 sq mi). That makes it the 29th-largest country in the world by area and the 12th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 42 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 107,271,260, the 15th-largest in the world and the 4th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 7.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Egypt has an average population density of about 107 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 4th by population and 12th by area.

The seat of government is Cairo, and the official currency is the Egyptian pound (EGP, £), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Egypt carries the ISO country codes EG and EGY, dials on the international calling code +20 and uses the .eg, .مصر internet domain.

Egypt shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Sudan (capital Khartoum, about 51,662,000 people), Israel (capital Jerusalem, about 10,134,800 people), Libya (capital Tripoli, about 7,459,000 people) and Palestine (capital Ramallah, about 5,483,450 people).

By area, Egypt is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 27.0° N, 30.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Egypt within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Cairo. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Egypt lies about 2,997 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Egypt keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Egyptian pound (EGP, £).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +20 and websites commonly use the .eg, .مصر internet domain.

In short, Egypt is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Cairo. Egypt has a population of about 107,271,260 and covers around 1,002,450 km² (387,048 sq mi), ranking it 15th in the world by population and 29th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Egypt.

The flag of Egypt is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and black, with Egypt's national emblem — a hoist-side facing gold eagle of Saladin — centered in the white band.

The flag of Egypt is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.