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خديوية مصر (Arabic)
Mısır Hidiviyet-i (Turkish)
Khedivate of Egypt |
Autonomous vassal of the Ottoman Empire
(under British occupation from 1882) |
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Anthem
Salam Affandina |
Green: Khedivate of Egypt
Light green: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan condominium
Lightest green: Ceded from Sudan to Italian North Africa in 1919 |
| Capital |
Cairo |
| Language(s) |
Arabic, English[a] |
| Religion |
Sunni Islam |
| Government |
Constitutional monarchy |
| Khedive |
| - 1867–1879 |
Isma'il Pasha |
| - 1879–1892 |
Tewfik Pasha |
| - 1892–1914 |
Abbas Hilmi II |
| British Agent and Consul-General |
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| - 1883–1907 |
Earl of Cromer |
| - 1907–1911 |
Sir Eldon Gorst |
| - 1911–1914 |
Earl Kitchener |
| Prime minister |
| - 1878–1879 |
Nubar Pasha (first) |
| - 1914 |
Hussein Rushdi Pasha (last) |
| Historical era |
Scramble for Africa |
| - Established |
8 June 1867 |
| - Suez Canal opened |
17 November 1869 |
| - Urabi Revolt |
1881–1882 |
| - British invasion |
July – September 1882 |
| - Sudan Convention |
18 January 1899 |
| - Disestablished |
19 December 1914 |
| Area |
| - 1882[b] |
34,184 km2 (13,199 sq mi) |
| Population |
| - 1882[b] est. |
6,805,000 |
| Density |
199.1 /km2 (515.6 /sq mi) |
| - 1897[b] est. |
9,715,000 |
| Density |
284.2 /km2 (736.1 /sq mi) |
| - 1907[b] est. |
11,287,000 |
| Density |
330.2 /km2 (855.2 /sq mi) |
| Currency |
Egyptian pound |
| ^ a. English became the sole official language in 1898.[1]
^ b. Area and density include inhabited areas only. The total area of Egypt, including deserts, is 994,000 km2.[2][3]
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The Khedivate of Egypt (Arabic: خديوية مصر) was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire.
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