“Learn politeness from the impolite.”
-Egyptian Proverb

Egypt rests on the African continent in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula. It’s capital is Cairo the time difference is 7 hours ahead of Washington, DC. Among all the names ancient Egypt has been known by one in particular is Kemet, from the root kem “black”, is a derivative from the fertile black soils deposited by the Nile floods. Egypt is approximately 386,660 sq miles, and is the world’s 38th-largest country, slightly more than three times the size of New Mexico. Besides the Nile Valley, the greater part of Egypt’s countryside is harsh desert land. High gusting winds are capable of forming sand dunes more than 100 feet high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara and Libyan Deserts. These deserts were referred to as the “red land” in ancient Egypt, and they protected the Kingdom of the Pharaohs from western threats. The Nile Valley was home to one of the oldest cultures in the world, spanning three thousand years of uninterrupted history. Egyptian culture as a whole has 6,000 years of recorded history. Egypt is also the third most populous on the African continent, with an estimated 83,082,869 million people. Egypt?s capital city, Cairo, is Africa’s largest city and has been renowned for centuries as a center of learning, culture and commerce.

Source Wikipedia and The Worldfactbook
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