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Egypt covers an area of about one million km 2.Apart from the Nile Valley forming a long fertile strip, most of the country is barren desert.The Red Sea and Gulf of Suez separate it from Arabia,while the Mediterranean washes its northern shore.It has common frontiers with Libya to the west and the Sudan to the south. Its population of almost 83 million makes it the third most populous country in Africa after Nigeria and Ethiopia.
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Egypt. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_9
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