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Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle). Egypt has an area of 1,010,408 km 2 (390,121 sq mi). [1] [2] The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 mi).
The location of Egypt An enlargeable map of Egypt. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Egypt: . Egypt (Arabic: ู ุตุฑ Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:, Arabic:) is a sovereign country located in eastern North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. [1]
Sinai has a land area of about 60,000 km 2 (23,000 sq mi) (6 percent of Egypt's total area) and a population of approximately 600,000 people. [1] Administratively, the vast majority of the area of the Sinai Peninsula is divided into two governorates: the South Sinai Governorate and the North Sinai Governorate.
Egypt is divided, for the purpose of public administration, according to a three-layer hierarchy and some districts are further subdivided, creating an occasional fourth layer. It has a centralized system of local government officially called local administration as it is a branch of the Executive .
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(๐ ๐ ๐๐) km.t, which means black land, likely referring to the fertile black soils of the Nile flood plains, distinct from the deshret ( dšแนt ), or "red land" of the desert. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] This name is commonly vocalised as Kemet , but was probably pronounced [kuหmat] in ancient Egyptian. [ 34 ]
It contained a provision that would give Egypt control of the Red Sea port of Suakin, but an amendment on 10 July 1899 gave Suakin to Sudan instead. [3] Map of the Hala'ib Triangle and Bir Tawil from 1912. On 4 November 1902, the UK drew a separate "administrative boundary", intended to reflect the actual use of the land by the tribes in the ...
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