Egypt borders are not so long, to the north there is the Mediterranean, to the south there is Sudan, to the west there is Libya, and to the east there is the Red Sea and Israel.

The River Nile divides Egypt unevenly in two, while the Suez Canal provides a third division with the Sinai Peninsula.

Most of the population is centered in the Delta and on the Nile valley which is highly cultivated. The landscape is mainly flat desert, devoid of vegetation apart from the few oases that have existed in the once fertile depressions of the Western Desert.

Narrow strips are inhabited on the Mediterranean coast and on the African Red Sea coast. The coast south of Suez has fine beaches and the coral reefs just offshore attract many divers.

Egypt's electricity is generated by the High Dam at Aswan which controls the annual floods that once put much of the Nile Valley under water and uses it to generate electricity and ensures our water reservoir.