At 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,660 sq mi),[9] Egypt is the world's 38th-largest country. In terms of land area, it is approximately the same size as all of Central America,[10] twice the size of Spain,[11] four times the size of the United Kingdom,[12] and the combined size of the US states of Texas and California.[13]
Nevertheless, due to the aridity of Egypt's climate, population centres are concentrated along the narrow Nile Valley and Delta, meaning that approximately 99% of the population uses only about 5.5% of the total land area.[14] The coastline of Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city
Egypt is bordered by Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east. Egypt's important role in geopolitics stems from its strategic position: a transcontinental nation, it possesses a land bridge (the Isthmus of Suez) between Africa and Asia, which in turn is traversed by a navigable waterway (the Suez Canal) that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea. The Nile River near Aswan
Apart from the Nile Valley, the majority of Egypt's landscape is a desert. The winds blowing can create sand dunes more than 100 feet (30 m) high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara Desert and of the Libyan Desert. These deserts were referred to as the "red land" in ancient Egypt, and they protected the Kingdom of the Pharaohs from western threats.
Towns and cities include Alexandria, one of the greatest ancient cities, Aswan, Asyut, Cairo, the modern Egyptian capital, El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Giza, the site of the Pyramid of Khufu, Hurghada, Luxor, Kom Ombo, Port Safaga, Port Said, Sharm el Sheikh, Suez, where the Suez Canal is located, Zagazig, and Al-Minya. Oases include Bahariya, el Dakhla, Farafra, el Kharga and Siwa. Protectorates include Ras Mohamed National Park, Zaranik Protectorate and Siwa.
See Egyptian Protectorates for more information.
ClimateThe cataracts did not impede the Egyptians from crossing the Nile.
Egyptians are lucky to have the nile river because they need water to survive and for their animals.
The Nile was not harmful.
The Ancient Egyptians did bathe near the Nile River. In fact they bathed in the Nile River. The Nile River also provided then with food.
the Egyptians treasured the Nile
They Egyptians were protected because the Nile valley was surrounded by desert!
The Nile River.
The Nile - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile
no the Nile is not changing as the Egyptians think its holy
Egyptians.
Nile
they provide egyptian foods and egyptians plants.