geographic location Egypt A country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east. The northern coast borders the Mediterranean Sea and the island of Cyprus; the eastern coast borders the Red Sea. Egypt is divided into 26 governorates (in Arabic, called muhafazat, singular muhafazah). The governorates are further divided into regions (markazes). Arab Republic of Egypt GAZ GAZ:00003934 GAZ:00003934 Gumhuriyyat Misr al-'Arabiyyah ISO3166-1:818 ISO3166-1:EG ISO3166-1:EGY ISO3166-2:EG Kemet {language: Egyptian} Kimi {language: Coptic} Masr {language: Egyptian Arabic} Misr {language: Arabic} The 2nd level administrative regions of Egypt are very confusuing and different sources conflicting. Those in gaz.obo are from GeoHive (http://www.xist.org/default1.aspx) and are not fully in agreement with those from the WHO (the file EGY_SALB_table.xls downloaded from http://www.who.int/whosis/database/gis/salb/salb_coding.aspx#DATA).