Egypt Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Ethnic groups === Ethnic [[Egyptians]] are by far the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting 99.7% of the total population.<ref name=factbook /> Ethnic minorities include the [[Abaza people|Abazas]], [[Turkish people|Turks]], [[Greeks]], [[Bedouin]] Arab tribes living in the eastern deserts and the [[Sinai Peninsula]], the [[Berber language|Berber]]-speaking [[Siwis]] ([[Berber people|Amazigh]]) of the [[Siwa Oasis]], and the [[Nubian people|Nubian]] communities clustered along the Nile. There are also tribal [[Beja people|Beja]] communities concentrated in the southeasternmost corner of the country, and a number of [[Dom people|Dom]] clans mostly in the Nile Delta and [[Faiyum]] who are progressively becoming assimilated as urbanisation increases. Some 5 million immigrants live in Egypt, mostly [[Sudan]]ese, "some of whom have lived in Egypt for generations".<ref name="Karasapan">Omer Karasapan, [https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/10/04/who-are-the-5-million-refugees-and-immigrants-in-egypt/ Who are the 5 million refugees and immigrants in Egypt?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706130432/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/10/04/who-are-the-5-million-refugees-and-immigrants-in-egypt/ |date=6 July 2017 }}, Brookings Institution (4 October 2016).</ref> Smaller numbers of immigrants come from [[Iraq]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Somalia]], [[South Sudan]], and [[Eritrea]].<ref name="Karasapan" /> The [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] estimated that the total number of "people of concern" (refugees, asylum seekers, and [[stateless people]]) was about 250,000. In 2015, the number of registered [[Syrian refugees in Egypt]] was 117,000, a decrease from the previous year.<ref name="Karasapan" /> Egyptian government claims that a half-million Syrian refugees live in Egypt are thought to be exaggerated.<ref name="Karasapan" /> There are 28,000 registered [[Sudanese refugees in Egypt]].<ref name="Karasapan" /> [[History of the Jews in Egypt|Jewish communities in Egypt]] have almost [[Jewish exodus from Arab lands|disappeared]]. Several important Jewish archaeological and historical sites are found in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page