by kleinbl00

Egypt looks like a very large country on a map. Most of Egypt’s territory, however, is desert. 95 percent of Egypt’s population lives within a few miles of the Nile River. Imagine 100 million people living in an area roughly the size of the American state of Maryland (population 6 million), surrounded on all sides by desert, and astride one of the most important chokepoints for global trade in the world. That is Egypt in a nutshell.

Fans of geography will note that any kinetic dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt will necessarily go through Sudan, Djibouti or Eritrea, and may occur in waters shared with Saudi Arabia and Yemen.