2016: Status: Not Free, Aggregate Score: 27, Political Rights: 6, Civil Liberties: 5
Egypt (Arabic: مِصر Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: مَصر Maṣr), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west. Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan, and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia, although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with Egypt.
Geographical type: Territory
Latitude: 26° N — Longitude: 30° E
Area: 1,010,408 km²
ISO 3166-2 code: EG
Measures of Freedom
2016: Status: Not Free, Aggregate Score: 27, Political Rights: 6, Civil Liberties: 5
2021: 4.24, Rank: 159, Personal freedom: 3.36, Economic freedom: 5.47
2014: 6.05, Rank: 129
Articles
Discusses recent criticism of Donald Trump that claims that his foreign policy towards known dictators and tyrants constitutes a major shift, when in fact that has been standard U.S. policy since at least the end of World War II
Examines events in Egypt from the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak to the 2013 coup d'état that removed Mohamed Morsi and the 2014 announcement by the Obama administration of continued military support for General el-Sisi
Examines the 2014 status of United States foreign policy in various Middle East countries
Cartoons and Comic Strips
The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Egypt" as of 24 Sep 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.