Egypt is located in northeastern Africa and covers an area of approximately 1,001,450 sq km. It reaches to the Mediterranean coast on the north and Suez Canal, Gulf of Suez and Red Sea on the east direction. The State of Israel is attached to the east of Sinai. Libya shares its western border and Sudan its southern border.
Egypt is an overwhelmingly desert country, divided by the River Nile. More than 90% of the country is covered by the 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 irrigated and fed by the River Nile - the Nile valley and the Nile Delta - that is both habitable and arable.
The Sinai Peninsula is formed of a sand desert and also spectacular mountains rising as high as 2,637m above the sea level.
The Sinai Peninsula is formed of a sand desert and also spectacular mountains rising as high as 2,637m above the sea level.
