Egypt
EgYpt Alternate titles: Arab Republic of Egypt, Arab Socialist Republic, Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʿArabīyah, Miṣr Egypt Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban …