The word corniche is typically used to describe a road on the side of a cliff or mountain, with the ground rising on one side of the road and falling away on the other. A road is a strip of land, smoothed or otherwise prepared to allow easier travel, connecting two or more destinations. ... geography, a cliff is a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure. ... Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ...

In Egypt, the word is typically used to describe a waterfront promenade, usually parallelled by a main road. In most places, the Corniche ("ﺶﻴﻧﺭﻮﮐ" in Arabic; this is the same word transliterated into Arabic script) runs alongside the River Nile. Luxor, Aswan, Maadi, and Cairo all have such corniches. However, a notable exception is the Corniche in Alexandria, which runs along the harbour. The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nīl), in Africa, is one of the two... See also the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Statue of Ramses II Luxor is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt. ... Aswan (أسوان Aswān) (24 05 N 32 56 E, population 200,000) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the governorate of the same name. ... Maadi (Arabic: ﻯﺩﺎﻌﻤﻟﺍ — el-Ma‛adi) is a suburb south of Cairo, Egypt. ... View of the modern citys skyline. ... Antiquity and modernity stand cheek-by-jowl in Egypts chief Mediterranean seaport Located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, Alexandria (in Arabic, الإسكندرية — al-Iskandariyah) is the chief seaport in Egypt, and that countrys second largest city, and the capital of the Al Iskandariyah governate. ... A harbor (or harbour) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ...

The word itself comes from the French route à corniche or road on a ledge, and should not be confused with cornice which is taken from Italian. A cornice is an overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain which are built up by drifting snow. ...

Corniche is also the model name of a Rolls Royce convertible. Rolls-Royce is a set of companies, all deriving from the British automobile and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906. ...