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19591999201123 March 2015Nile Waters Agreement between Egypt and SudanNile Basin InitiativeConstruction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance DamDeclaration of Principles between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt The Nile drainage basin, at 3 million km2, covers 12 countries and is the fourth largest in the world. Over a century, Egypt, the furthest downstream country, exercised a hydro-hegemony, imposing a water management programme on the other countries that was favourable to itself. At the beginning...

195685%20082018Creation of the Egyptian General Petroleum CompanyPercentage of electricity production from hydrocarbons in 2015Cooperation agreement with Russia to develop civil nuclear powerExploitation of the Zohr gas fieldSources : IRENA Egypt possesses sizeable hydrocarbon resources but cannot compare with the main international producers. The country is very dependent on hydrocarbons for electricity production, since the role played by hydroelectricity has shrunk: 7% in 2016 as against m...

19th century 47.6%68%Transition from recessional agriculture to perennial irrigationPercentage of the Egyptian population living in the Delta in 2017 (not counting Cairo or the Canal cities)Percentage of national agricultural production from the DeltaSource: CAPMAS The Nile Delta is Egypt’s principle zone for agricultural production and the country’s economic engine. Nonetheless, this region, crisscrossed by multiple canals and hemmed in to the north by lakes (buhayrat), has suffered the nega...

While several atlases of Ancient Egypt exist, no atlas of contemporary Egypt has yet been published. Thus, this work fills a void and offers the general public an illustrated panorama of Egypt at the beginning of the 21st century. Through the contributions of some fifty researchers, it presents in an accessible form the key facts and challenges that concern present-day Egypt in the realms of politics, economics, demographics, the environment, society and culture, and geopolitics. To this end, the Atlas relies on a wide array of previously unpublished sources, most especially maps, which help to unlock and interpret the results of the official Egyptian census of 2017, providing an up-to-date view of the country and a better understanding of Egypt today.

1st January25 March26 July29 October5 NovemberEnd of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of the SudanClosure of the British base at MoascarNationalisation of the Suez CanalIsraeli invasion of the SinaiLanding of Franco-British forces 1956 was a crucial year in the contemporary history of the country. It featured the adoption of a new constitution by referendum, during which women voted for the very first time, Gamal Abdel Nasser’s accession to the presidency, the withdrawal of the last British tro...