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(dark shading – “official territory”)
(light shading – “claimed territory”)
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/ˈiːdʒɪpt/
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arabic –>
مِصر
(Miṣr)
‘egyptian arabic’ –>
مَصر
(Maṣr)
‘coptic’ –>
(Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ)
(Khemi)
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official name –>
“the arab republic of egypt”
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(“egypt” is a ‘transcontinental country’ spanning the northeast corner of ‘africa’ + southwest corner of ‘asia’, via a land bridge formed by the ‘sinai peninsula’)
(it is the world’s only contiguous ‘eurafrasian nation’)
(most of egypt’s territory of ‘1,010,408 square kilometers’ (/ ‘390,000 square miles’) lies within the ‘nile valley’)
(‘egypt’ is a ‘mediterranean country’)
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(it is bordered by…)
the ‘gaza strip’ + ‘israel’
(to the ‘northeast’)
the ‘gulf of aqaba’
(to the ‘east’)
the ‘red sea’
(to the ‘east’ + ‘south’)
‘sudan’
(to the ‘south’)
‘libya’
(to the ‘west’)
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(‘egypt’ has one of the longest histories of any ‘modern country’, arising in the tenth millennium BC as one of the world’s first “nation-states”)
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(considered a ‘cradle of civilization’, ‘ancient egypt’ experienced some of the earliest developments of…)
‘writing’
‘agriculture’
‘urbanization’
‘organized religion’
‘central government’
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(Iconic monuments such as the ‘giza necropolis’ + its ‘great sphinx’ (as well the ‘ruins of memphis’, ‘thebes’, ‘karnak’, and the ‘valley of the kings’, reflect this legacy and remain a significant focus of ‘archaeological study’ + ‘popular interest’ worldwide)
(egypt’s rich cultural heritage is an integral part of its ‘national identity’, having endured, and at times assimilated, various foreign influences, including ‘Greek’, ‘Persian’, ‘Roman’, ‘Arab’, ‘Ottoman’, and ‘European’.
Although Christianized in the first century of the Common Era, it was subsequently Islamized due to the Islamic conquests of the seventh century.
With over 90 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in North Africa and the Arab World, the third-most populous in Africa (after Nigeria and Ethiopia), and the fifteenth-most populous in the world.
The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 40,000 square kilometres (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.
About half of Egypt’s residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
(modern Egypt is considered to be a regional and middle power, with significant cultural, political, and military influence in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world)
(its economy is one of the largest and most diversified in the Middle East, with sectors such as tourism, agriculture, industry and services at almost equal production levels)
(in ‘2011’, longtime president ‘hosni mubarak’ stepped down amid ‘mass protests’)
(later elections saw the rise of the ‘muslim brotherhood’, which was ousted by the ‘army’ a year later amid ‘mass protests’)
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