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Egypt is a country mainly in North Afica, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in South Asia. Egypt is a transcontinental country, and is considered to be a major power in North Afica. Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the North, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the Northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the South and Libya to the west. Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments. From the highlands of East Afica to the Mediterranean Sea, the Nile River flows Northward across Afica over 4,100 miles, making it the longest river in the world. Egypt settlements across a long the Nile on a narrow Strip of land made fertile by the river. From about 6000 BC various communities of hunter-gatherers make the Nile the centre of their territory, around witch they roam. The unusal habit of this great river-flooding every year and depositing a layer of rich moist soil on the surrounding region. The river takes upon itself two otherwise laborious tasks, irrigation and the enriching of the soil. By about 3100 BC these communities have become sufficiently prosperous and stable to be united in a single political entity the first Egyptian dynncisty. The unifying of Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom is the event pointed to by the ancient Egyptians themselves as the beginning of their civilization. Lower Egypt is roughly the broad delta river, where it separates into many branches before flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. Upper Egypt is the long main channel of the river itself, possibly as far up stream as boats can reach to the first water fall or cataract, at Aswan.
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