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Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2156 words) |
 | The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic: مصر, romanized Misr, or Masr in Egyptian dialect), kemet in Ancient Egyptian, is a transcontinental republic in north-eastern Africa. |
| Egypt is the second most populous country in Africa, and the vast majority of its 77 million population (2005) lives less than a kilometer away from the banks of the Nile River (about 40,000 km²), where the only arable agricultural land is found. |
| Egypt borders on Libya on the west, on Sudan on the south and on Israel on the northeast. |
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