Politics of Egypt. History of Egypt. The Egyptian Museums Directory. Namaste Egypt | Your Indian Connection to Egypt. .::. Tourist Monthly Online Magazine - FreeDaysEgypt .::. Egypt's Tourism , Historic Sites | Egypt travel Egypt holidays Alexandria Library. Egypt Travel Guide - Tour Egypt. Egypt Tours | Travel to Egypt | Egypt Vacations | Nile Cruises | Egypt Travel. Home | Egypt Tourism Authority. Egypt. Egyptopia : Your gate to Egypt. Egypt. Egypt i/ˈiːdʒɪpt/ (Arabic: مصر Miṣr), is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Most of its territory of 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi) lies within the Nile Valley of North Africa and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
With over 86 million inhabitants, Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East, and the 15th-most populated in the world. The great majority of its people[4] live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large regions of the Sahara Desert, which constitute most of Egypt's territory, are sparsely inhabited. Names History Prehistory and Ancient Egypt Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.