Infographic: 50 Insane Facts About Egypt

Some of the tidbits of information in this infographic are (way) oversimplified and obviously cherry-picked – plus there’s (way) more than 11.17 million people in Cairo – but they’re still pretty interesting.

Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was supposed to be in Egypt and that the Cairo metro was Africa’s first underground railway? Here goes HolidayGems.co.uk attempt to distill eons of history into 50 insane facts about Egypt:

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