Egypt, in long form the Arab Republic of Egypt (in Arabic جمهورية مصر العربية), commonly called مصر ("Masr") 2, is a country located in North-East Africa, for the Sinai Peninsula, in West Asia. Located on the southern coast of the eastern Mediterranean, the Levantine Basin, present-day Egypt occupies the geographical space that was once that of ancient Egypt.
With more than 92 million inhabitants in 2017, Egypt is the third most populous country in Africa behind Nigeria and Ethiopia. In very strong growth, its population has multiplied by four in sixty years.
Its capital is Cairo - القاهرة (al-Qâhira) and its currency is the Egyptian pound. If the official language of the country is Arabic, the spoken language is Egyptian (Arabic dialect). Siwi - Tamazight (Berber) from the west of the country - is still spoken in Siwa. Coptic survives as a liturgical language of the Christians of Egypt. As for the Nubian, it remains a language spoken by the inhabitants of Upper Egypt, in the region of Aswan, a region commonly known as Nubia
