Egypt karnak stone carving with lion

>For other uses, see Egypt (disambiguation).Covering an area of about 1,020,000 km², Egypt shares land borders with Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza Strip to the northeast and has coasts on the north and east by the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively.Egypt is the second most populous country in Africa, and the vast majority of its 77 million population (2005) lives less than a kilometer away from the banks of the Nile River (about 40,000 km²), where the only arable agricultural land is found. Large areas of land are part of the Sahara Desert and are sparsely inhabited. The majority of Egyptians today are urban, living in the great Arab population centers of greater Cairo, the largest city in Africa, and Alexandria. See more at Wikipedia.org...

>This article is about the village and associated temple complex in Egypt. For other uses, see Karnak (disambiguation). El-Karnak is a small village in Egypt, located on the banks of the River Nile some 2.5 km north of Luxor. It stands at . Visitors to the area – particularly foreign tourists – perceive no distinction between Luxor and el-Karnak, as the two are both parts of the same conurbation. See more at Wikipedia.org...