Country Profile: Egypt -- By Mickey

People have lived in Egypt for more than 4,000 years. The ancient Egyptians left building called pyramids. that still stand today. You can visit them if you go.

History & Geography 

Egypt shares borders with Israel and Libya.

The location of Egypt is northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Its total area is 1,00,450sq km. It's the 30th largest country. Egypt's climate is desert with hot, dry summers and moderate winters.


Economy

Tourists come to Egypt to explore its history.

For the resources of Egypt is Detroleum, natural gas, iron ore, and phosfates. Egypt's main industries, are tourism, textiles and food processing. There are lots of agriculture, like cotton, rice , corn, wheat, beans, water,buffalo, and sheep. Also, 51 percent of Egyptian work in service jobs.

People

People in Egypt are 90 percent Sunni Muslims of ethnic Egyptian heritage.
 
Overall

Egypt is a rich country. I hope I would never go to Egypt.

   

Country Profile: Uruguay -- by Mickey

The flag of Uruguay.

 Does the Uruguayan flag look familiar? That's because Uruguay wanted it to look like the American and Argentine flags. There are nine equal horizontal stripes of alternating white and blue, with a sun symbol in the corner.

Geograhy

A map showing Uruguay's administrative districts.

Uruguay is located in South America, with the south Alantic Ocean on its East coast and Brazil on its northern border. If we total the area of Uruguay's lands, it is 176,215 square km. Compared to the rest of the world's countries, it is 91st in size. The weather is always warm in Uruguay. Also, there are some plains, hills and lowlands.

Economy

Fishing is a major export industry for Uruguay.

Uruguay has a free-market economy characterized by an export - oriented agricultural sector, especially fishing. There were financial difficulties in late 1990s and early 200s, economic grow for  Uruguay averaged 8% annually during the period 2004-08. At 2006, has in  creased by nearly 70% more than $20 billion. They had trade the foods that is made and electronics. They also have  many resources. For an example, there are soy beans, beef, fish, rice, diary and lumber.

People & Culture

A Uruguayan church.

Uruguayans are overwhelmingly descended from colonial European settlers, mostly Spanish and/or Italian. Native people make up approximately six percent of the population. Spanish and Portugese are the main languages spoken.

Due to the large Spanish and Italian makeup of the population, most Uruguayans are Catholic.

Country Profile: Germany -- by Jackson

The flag of Germany.

German people are the second biggest consumers of beer in the world, with an average of 107 liters consumed per person in 2010. Germany is also the most populous European country, with 82 million people.

Geography

Germany is located in Central Europe along the Baltic sea and North seas. It also shares borders with nine different countries, some of which include France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium. And low mountain has large forest.

People & Culture

Germany art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts from the earliest known work of figurative art to. Its current output of contemporary art.

Approximately one third of Germans worship in a place like this.

And Germany's religion. The 64.1% of the German population belongs to Christian denominations. And 31.4% are Roman Catholic.

 

Recent History

Both world wars of the 20th Century took place in German territory. World War I happened from 1914~1918 and World War II took place from 1939~1945.