The country has six main physical regions: the Nile Valley, the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert and the Sinai Peninsula.
Southern Egypt's landscape contains low mountains and desert. Northern Egypt has wide valleys near the Nile and desert to the east and west. North of Cairo, the capital, is the sprawling, triangular Nile River Delta. This fertile land is completely covered with farms.Egypt is divided into four geographic regions. These regions are the Nile Valley and the Delta, the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, and the Sinai Peninsula (Fig.
