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| Egypt covers an area of approximately 1 001 450 sq km (386 662 sq mi) in northeastern Africa its northern coastline along the Mediterranean Sea its eastern coastline along the Red Sea and touching the State of Israel in the Sinai. Libya shares its western border Sudan its southern border.Egypt is overwhelmingly a desert country bisected by the River Nile. Over 90% of the land area is formed by a convergence of deserts -- the Libyan Desert to the west the Sahara and Nubian Deserts to the south and the Arabian Desert to the east. There are oases scattered across this wasteland and a swathe of land along the Suez Canal which is cultivated but it is mainly the land fed by the River Nile -- the Nile valley and the Nile Delta -- that is both habitable and arable. The Sinai Peninsula is formed of sand desert and spectacular mountains rising as high as 2 637m (8 652ft) above Red Sea level. |
| POPULATION |
| The population of Egypt stands at around 58 519 000 with projections placing the population at 65 million by the end of 1997. Although the birth rate has gone down slightly (from 2.8% annually in the 1980s down to 2.3%) the countrys population explosion is its greatest and most intractable problem exacerbated by the sheer lack of habitable land area. Almost the entire population lives in the Delta and in the Nile Valley which is only about 4% of the countrys land area making this land among of the most densely populated in the world. |
| LANGUAGES SPOKEN |
| Arabic is the countrys official language. The Egyptian dialect is distinct from all others and because of the countrys dominance of the media (television cinema radio and music) the most recognizable and universal. Arab popular singers from as far afield as Morocco and Syria often emigrate to Egypt and sing in the Egyptian dialect instead of their own. |
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