Where Egypt is building

The projects, and where they actually are.

Egypt’s megaprojects, renewable plants, hydrogen agreements, ports and headline investment deals — each with the figure that was published about it and a link to whoever published it. Information and education only, not investment advice.

Tile-free, like every map here

Filter, then open a project.

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Site — the project’s own location field names this place Governorate — the location is known only to governorate, so this marks the governorate, not the project
What the map can and cannot say

Most of these projects are not on the map, and that is the honest answer.

The knowledge base holds every one of these projects with a source and a published figure. What it does not hold is a coordinate. So each project is put on the map only when it can be placed from data already in this repository — the OpenStreetMap gazetteer and the governorate outlines — using one of three rules, each recorded on the project itself:

  • its location field names a governorate exactly, and it is drawn as that governorate rather than as a point;
  • its location field names a place exactly;
  • its own name is a place in the gazetteer — which is true of exactly one project, the New Administrative Capital.

A looser rule was written first and thrown away. Matching any place name found inside a project’s text placed twenty-two of the forty, and several were wrong in the particular way a map hides: three wind farms whose location reads “Gulf of Suez” landed in the city of Suez, 250 km from the water they stand in. A middle version matching only the start of a name was no better — it put the Abydos 1 solar plant on the archaeological site it is named after, 300 km from Kom Ombo where the plant is, with a working citation attached. Six correct pins were not worth five wrong ones.

Which is why the projects that could not be placed are listed below in full rather than quietly left off. A map that hides what it could not locate invites you to read it as complete.

All of them, placed or not

Every project, with its published figure and its source.

Status travels with every number, because several of these are stated national targets for 2030 rather than things that exist. Figures are as published by the source on that row — nothing here is computed, projected or ranked by EgyBI.

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ProjectKindPublished figureStatusOn the mapSource
The gap, published

What could not be located, and the text that could not be matched.

Each of these carries a location in the knowledge base that names something the gazetteer has no coordinate for — a gulf, an economic zone, a village OpenStreetMap has not recorded as a town. Closing this gap needs a sourced coordinate per project, which is a data task rather than a mapping one.

ProjectLocation as recordedWhy it is not on the map
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Sources, and what this page is not.

Nothing on this page is investment advice, a recommendation, a valuation or an offer. EgyBI is not licensed by Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), does not provide investment advice and does not manage money. This page lists locations and figures that other people published, with a link to each one, so that you can go and read the source yourself.

Announced project costs and deal values are frequently revised, disputed, or expressed on bases that are not comparable to one another. A figure appearing here means a named source published it, not that it is settled, and not that EgyBI has verified the amount independently. Where a row’s status says Target, the number is a stated government objective for a future year and has not happened.

Project rows come from the EgyBI knowledge base. Coordinates come from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0).