Egypt :  Facts

Transportation- Roads and highways

Airports:
86 (2010)
Country comparison to the world: 66
Airports - with paved runways:
Total: 73
Over 3,047 m: 15
2,438 to 3,047 m: 36
1,524 to 2,437 m: 15
914 to 1,523 m: 2
Under 914 m: 5 (2010)

Pipelines:
Condensate 320 km; condensate/gas 13 km; gas 6,628 km; liquid petroleum gas 956 km; oil 4,332 km; oil/gas/water 3 km; refined products 895 km; water 13 km (2010)

Railways:
Total: 5,083 km
Country comparison to the world: 35
Standard gauge: 5,083 km 1.435-m gauge (62 km electrified) (2010)

Roadways:
Total: 65,050 km
Country comparison to the world: 70
Paved: 47,500 km
Unpaved: 17,550 km (2009)

Waterways:
3,500 km (includes the River Nile, Lake Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo waterway, and numerous smaller canals in Nile Delta; the Suez Canal (193.5 km including approaches) is navigable by oceangoing vessels drawing up to 17.68 m) (2010)
Country comparison to the world: 29

Merchant marine:
Total: 66
Country comparison to the world: 63
By type: bulk carrier 11, cargo 24, container 3, passenger/cargo 7, petroleum tanker 12, roll on/roll off 9

Foreign-owned: 13 (Denmark 1, France 1, Greece 8, Jordan 2, Lebanon 1)
Registered in other countries: 52 (Cambodia 12, Cook Islands 1, Georgia 11, Honduras 2, Malta 1, marshal Islands 1, Moldova 5, panama 11, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4, Saudi Arabia 1, Sierra Leone 2, unknown 1) (2010)

Ports and terminals:
Ayn Sukhnah, Alexandria, Damietta, El Dekheila, Port Said, Sidi Kurayr, Suez

MILITARY

Military branches:
Army, navy, air force, air defence command

Military service age and obligation:
18-30 years of age for male conscript military service; service obligation 12-36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation (2008)

Manpower available for military service:
Males age 16-49: 21,012,199
Females age 16-49: 20,145,021 (2010 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
Males age 16-49: 18,060,543
Females age 16-49: 17,244,838 (2010 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
Male: 783,405
Female: 748,647 (2010 est.)

Military expenditures:
3.4% of GDP (2005 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 35

TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES

Disputes - international:
Sudan claims but Egypt de facto administers security and economic development of Halaib region north of the 22nd parallel boundary; Egypt no longer shows its administration of the Bir Tawil trapezoid in Sudan on its maps; Gazan breaches in the security wall with Egypt in January 2008 highlight difficulties in monitoring the Sinai border; Saudi Arabia claims Egyptian-administered islands of Tiran and Sanafir

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
Refugees (country of origin): 60,000 - 80,000 (Iraq); 70,198 (Palestinian territories); 12,157 (Sudan) (2007)