Over 90 percent of its land is uninhabited, contrasting with great centers of population, including the capital, Cairo, which is the largest city in Africa a dusty, noisy, sprawling, neon-lit, crowded metropolis of more than fourteen million people.
A majority of the land has no one living there.
The main entrance takes you to the first sacred gateway (torii), which in Japan always symbolizes the threshold of holy ground.