Egypt
Egypt is time travel with traffic: 5,000-year-old tombs beside honking Cairo streets, felucca sails on the eternal Nile, and Red Sea reefs that rival anywhere on the planet.
Best time: October–April31°C · Clear sky in Cairo
CapitalCairo
Population112 million
CurrencyEgyptian pound (EGP)
LanguagesArabic; English/French in tourism
TimezoneUTC+2
Egypt is time travel with traffic: 5,000-year-old tombs beside honking Cairo streets, felucca sails on the eternal Nile, and Red Sea reefs that rival anywhere on the planet.
Fun fact
The Great Pyramid was the tallest human-made structure on Earth for over 3,800 years — and we still don’t fully agree on how it was built.
