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  2. Geography of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Egypt is divided into 28 governorates, which include two city-governortes: Alexandria (Alexandria Governorate) and Cairo (Cairo Governorate).There are nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, ten of Upper Egypt along the Nile river south from Cairo to Aswan and five frontier governorates covering Sinai and the deserts that lie west and east of the Nile river.

  3. Lower Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Lower Egypt (Arabic: مصر السفلى Miṣr as-Suflā; Coptic: ⲧⲥⲁϧⲏⲧ, romanized: Tsakhet) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, from El Aiyat, south of modern-day Cairo, and Dahshur. Historically, the Nile River split into seven branches of ...

  4. Upper and Lower Egypt - Wikipedia

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    To the south was Upper Egypt, stretching to Aswan. The terminology "Upper" and "Lower" derives from the flow of the Nile from the highlands of East Africa northwards to the Mediterranean Sea. The two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt were united c. 3000 BC, but each maintained its own regalia: the hedjet or White Crown for Upper Egypt and the ...

  5. Upper Egypt - Wikipedia

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    "Upper Egypt" is in the lower portion of the map. Upper Egypt is between the Cataracts of the Nile beyond modern-day Aswan, downriver (northward) to the area of El-Ayait, [5] which places modern-day Cairo in Lower Egypt. The northern (downriver) part of Upper Egypt, between Sohag and El-Ayait, is also known as Middle Egypt.

  6. 31st century BC - Wikipedia

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    c. 3090 BC: Narmer (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Egypt into one country; he rules this new country from Memphis. c. 3051 BC: The oldest currently living organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, undergoes germination in the White Mountains of California.

  7. List of ancient Egyptian towns and cities - Wikipedia

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    Map of ancient Egypt with town names in hieroglyphs Index of four charts of ancient Egyptian Cities Lower Egypt Upper Egypt part 1 Upper Egypt and part of Nubia Nubia. This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1]

  8. List of regions of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Nubia (Lower Nubia) (Upper Nubia) Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt; The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts

  9. Boundaries between the continents - Wikipedia

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    As wider knowledge of geography developed, the shape of the African landmass (and Egypt's "natural" inclusion in that landmass) became apparent. In 1806, William George Browne still titled his travelogue Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria. Similarly, James Bruce in 1835 published Travels through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia.