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Fun fact 1 about Egypt

Clockwise: a Badarian mortuary figurine, a Naqada jar, a Naqada statuette of the goddess Bat, the Four dogs palette, the Gebel el-Arak Knife, and a Naqada diorite vase.
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Ancient Egypt was known as Kemet, meaning 'black', referring to the fertile soils of the Nile floodplains.

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Egypt

Population
118.4M
Area
1.00M km²
Capital
Cairo
Continent
Africa
13th most populous country in the world

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.

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