Alexandria It is the pearl of the Mediterranean and is an Egyptian city on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and one of the ancient capitals of Egypt. It was the capital of Egypt before Cairo and a center of cultural radiance in the Ptolemaic era. Alexandria has a population of 1.4 million people and has the largest Egyptian port serving about 80 percent of all imports and exports of Egypt.

Alexandria is a tourist city that stretches for about 32 kilometers (20 miles) along the Mediterranean coast in northern Egypt. It is home to the Alexandria Library

Alexandria was founded on a small Egyptian village called Rakotis by King Alexander the Great of Macedonia, who then made it the capital of Egypt in 331 BC in order to be a point of contact between Greece and the Nile Valley.

In the Ptolemaic era, the city expanded, and in a very short period of time it became larger than the city of Carthage, and became the most important Greek city in Egypt, and the center of Hellenistic culture in the Mediterranean region.

Alexandria has many entertainment venues, cinemas, theaters, clubs, shopping malls, amusement parks, and many squares.