“along a very narrow band of the earth, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.”

Uhh, I wouldn’t consider that very narrow, especially given that it’s 36% of Earth’s landmass and a third of all people live in it

As an Egyptian, I think this would be a great map format for our country.

Though the delta would pose an issue, the nile also goes diagonal in the south, so it’d have to switch from north-up in the north to nortwest-up in the south which would probably be jarring