Egypt Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
country in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia
About Egypt
Egypt is a large, transcontinental country spanningNorth Africaand theMiddle East. It is the world's 29th largest country, with a land area of1,010,408 square kilometres (390,121sqmi). It is one of Africa's largest countries, one of the most populated countries in the Arab world. The country is bounded by the Mediterranean and Red Seas (to the north and east respectively) and geographically dominated both by theNileRiver and its fertile well-watered valley, and by the Eastern and Western deserts. The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose around 3200 BC and a series of dynasties ruled in Egypt for the next thre
Egypt Travel Guide Sections
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