[[Image:library2.jpg|thumb| Alexandria is Egypt's second largest city and chief port. Here is that city's state-of-the-art library]]
[[Image:Egyptworkshop.jpg|thumb|right|Egypt has a burgeoning youth population.]][[Image:sphinx.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Great Sphinx of Giza]], with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background]]
[[Image:Cairo.jpg|thumb|right|Egypt's capital [[Cairo]] is one of the largest cities in [[Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]]][[Image:mosque2.jpg|thumb|right| Most Egyptians are [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] [[Muslim]]s]][[Image:monastry3.jpg|thumb|right|Over six million Egyptians follow the [[Christianity|Christian]] faith as members of the [[Coptic Church]]]][[Image:Egypt south of Cairo.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Egyptian countryside, south of Cairo. Every green plant is watered from the Nile]]
Geography, population, history, military strength, and diplomatic expertise give Egypt extensive political influence in the Middle East. Cairo has been a crossroads of Arab commerce and culture for millennia, and its intellectual and Islamic institutions are at the center of the region's social and cultural development.
The [[League of Arab States]] headquarters is in Cairo. The Secretary General of the League has traditionally been an Egyptian. Former Egyptian Foreign Minister [[Amr Moussa]] is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.
Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996.
Egypt is on good terms with all of its neighbours, and was the first Arab nation to make peace with Israel. It has a territorial dispute with Sudan over the [[Hala'ib Triangle]].
