Geography

Egypt is located in northeastern Africa, with the Mediterranean Sea to the north and Sudan to its south. Libya shares its western border while the Red Sea and Israel shares its eastern border. Egypt is mainly a desert country, with the Nile River dividing the country unevenly in two, and the Suez Canal (the shortest sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea) together with the Sinai Peninsula, providing a third division. The landscape is mainly made up of flat desert, without any vegetation apart from the few oases that have survived in the Western Desert. Over 90% of the land area is covered by deserts - the Libyan Desert to the west, the Sahara and Nubian Deserts to the south and the Arabian Desert to the east. More than 90% of the population is centered on the Nile River as only the Nile valley and the Nile Delta is both habitable and arable. Narrow strips are also inhabited on the Mediterranean coast and on the African Red Sea coast.

DID YOU KNOW?
Between 525 B.C and 1952 (two and a half millennia), every Egyptian ruler was of foreign blood.