Which is the highest peak in Egypt?
Egypt is an intercontinental country. Egypt is bounded on the northeast corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge built by the Sinai Peninsula.
The land area of Egypt is 1,010,408 km (390,121 square miles). The capital and largest city of Egypt is Cairo, and the second largest city is Alexandria, an important industrial and tourist centre on the Mediterranean coast.
Egypt is the 14th most populous country in the world. Egypt is bounded to the north by the Mediterranean Sea; to the east by the Gaza Strip (Palestine) and northeast Israel; to the south by Sudan; and to the west by Libya. To the northeast of Egypt, the Gulf of Aqaba separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The average height of Egypt is 321 meters. Egypt's highest peak is in the southern Sinai province, near the city of St. Catherine. Mount Catherine is the highest peak in Egypt. The height of Mount Catherine is 2,642 meters.
Mount Catherine is locally known as Gable Catherine. Egypt has the lowest altitude in the Katra Depression, at 133 meters above sea level.
The oldest text in Egypt is the Pyramid Text. The Pyramid Text is one of the oldest Egyptian burial texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts.
