# Geographic data

countries.json: Natural Earth 1:110m admin-0 data, public domain. Regional subset with names and labels; not authoritative borders. Source: https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/geojson/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.geojson

egypt-provinces.json: unchanged simplified geoBoundaries gbOpen EGY ADM1 geometry. Boundary ID EGY-ADM1-46179711; 27 units; year represented 2017; source OpenStreetMap/Wambacher; ODbL 1.0. API: https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/EGY/ADM1/ . Download: https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/raw/9469f09/releaseData/gbOpen/EGY/ADM1/geoBoundaries-EGY-ADM1_simplified.geojson . Licence: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/ . Downloaded 7 September 2026. Available here for reuse under that licence.

Country labels do not imply sovereignty positions. Bahrain uses a country locator because its polygon is absent at this Natural Earth scale. Northern Cyprus geometry is included within the Cyprus editorial page without making a political assertion. Geometry is for regional orientation, not surveyed boundaries or travel advice.

Church coordinates: Wikidata Q2422298 and Q2965718 for Old Cairo; UNESCO properties 954 and 90 for Saint Catherine and Abu Mena. Approximate site/reference points, not verified public entrances. Source links appear in each profile. Directory province assignments are Cairo, South Sinai and Alexandria respectively, consistent with location descriptions and the mapped boundaries.

Detailed basemap: street-style.json is a locally hosted modification of the OpenFreeMap Liberty style, using the provider’s public vector tiles. https://openfreemap.org/quick_start/ . Data attribution: © OpenMapTiles and © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright . Translated name expressions were adjusted for English/Spanish/Portuguese/French/Italian, with source-name fallback. No API key is used.

Additional Egyptian directory coordinates are sourced individually from St-Takla catalogue pages, with source links in each profile. Identity review and current operation are separate. Unknown coordinates are not plotted. Saint George (Greek Orthodox, Old Cairo) uses OSM church footprint way 197960953 after correcting an inconsistent Wikidata point. Aswan Archangel Michael uses OSM way 326938597, with identity corroboration by the official Coptic Diocese of Aswan.