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Main Facts
Languages of Egypt
The national or official languages in Egypt are the Standard Arabic and/or Egyptian Spoken Arabic. The other languages include Adyghe, Amharic (5,000), Armenian (100,000), Bedawi (77,000), Italian (72,400), Moroccan Spoken Arabic, South Levantine Spoken Arabic (50,000), Sudanese Spoken Arabic (3,800,000), Tosk Albanian (18,000), West Central Oromo.
Currency of Egypt
The unit of currency is the Egyptian Pound (EGP), which is divided into 100 piastres. The Egyptian Pound (EGP) as its currency is based on the market rate of 2003, US $1 equal to 5.8509 Egyptian pounds. As of today 1 Egyptian pound = 0.177519 U.S. dollars. Most credit cards are accepted in major hotels and restaurants. Visitors are advised to take travellers cheques in US Dollars or Pounds to avoid additional exchange rate charges. Banks are usually closed on Friday and Saturday, but private exchange bureau, called 'Forex', are open daily and banks in major hotels are open 24 hours. Cairo branches of the Egyptian British Bank and Banque Misr now have ATMs available that accept Visa, MasterCard and Cirrus and are quite common in the main tourist areas.
