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Also known as Egyptian people
Egyptians (, ; , ; ) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population is concentrated in the Nile Valley, a small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the east and to the west. This unique geography has been the basis of the development of Egyptian society since antiquity.
AI overview
Egyptians are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt, whose identity has been fundamentally shaped by their geographic location in a narrow strip of fertile land surrounded by desert. This distinctive geography has been central to how Egyptian society has developed from ancient times to the present day.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Egyptians
- Ethnic group.population
- 120 million (2017)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- ''''''118,366,000(2025 estimate)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 1,500,000
- Ethnic group.pop3
- ~1,000,000–2,000,000 (pre-2011)
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 1,000,000–1,500,000
- Ethnic group.pop5
- 600,000
- Ethnic group.ref5
- –1,600,000
- Ethnic group.pop6
- 765,000
- Ethnic group.pop7
- 500,000
- Ethnic group.pop8
- 500,000
- Ethnic group.pop9
- 300,000