Egypt

Quick facts

Where is Egypt?

Satellite view centred on Cairo (27.0°, 30.0°).

How to spot Egypt from satellite imagery

Egypt is one of the easiest countries on Earth to identify from satellite imagery. The reason is simple: roughly 95 percent of the country's population lives on the 5 percent of land within a few kilometres of the Nile. The river draws a thin, vivid green ribbon through a vast brown desert, and the boundary between cultivated land and uninhabitable Sahara is one of the sharpest visible from orbit anywhere on Earth. If a satellite frame shows a narrow strip of dense green agriculture against bare desert, with a river running through the middle, you are almost certainly in Egypt.

But Egypt is more than just the Nile. The Delta, the Sinai Peninsula, the Red Sea coast, the Western Desert oases, and the new desert cities all have their own signatures. This guide breaks down each of them so you can not just identify Egypt but pinpoint where in Egypt you have landed.

Themed Egypt modes

Restrict the location pool to Egypt and pick a theme — volcanoes, capitals, coastlines. Smaller pool, sharper learning curve.