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Northeast Africa

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Northeast Africa
Area4,655,873 km²
(1,797,642 sq mi)
Population181 million (2024)
Population density40/km² (103/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)$527 billion (2024)
DemonymNortheast African
Countries Egypt
Libya
Sudan
LanguagesAfroasiatic (Arabic, Berber, Fur, Nubian)

Northeast Africa, or Northeastern Africa is the region which is in the eastern part of North Africa that includes Egypt, Libya, Sudan.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

The region has a very long history of habitation with fossil finds from the early hominids to modern human and is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse regions of the world, being the home to many civilizations and located on an important trade route that connects multiple continents.[11][12][13][14][15]

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  2. Kopietz, Hans-Heino; Smith, Pamela Ann (1984), "Egypt, Libya and the Sudan", in Crowder, Michael (ed.), The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 8: From c.1940 to c.1975, vol. 8, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 502–563, ISBN 978-0-521-22409-3, retrieved 2026-07-08
  3. "UNDP / UNESCO policy brief, 2018".
  4. "Council for Old World Archaeology". American Journal of Archaeology. 62 (2): 215–216. April 1958. doi:10.2307/502356. JSTOR 502356.
  5. Edmunds, W. M. (August 2009). "Palaeoclimate and groundwater evolution in Africa—implications for adaptation and management". Hydrological Sciences Journal. 54 (4): 781–792. Bibcode:2009HydSJ..54..781E. doi:10.1623/hysj.54.4.781. ISSN 0262-6667.
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  8. Moore, Clement Henry (January 1987). "The Northeastern Triangle: Libya, Egypt, and the Sudan". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 489 (1): 28–39. doi:10.1177/0002716287489001003. ISSN 0002-7162.
  9. Wetterer, James; Hugel, Sylvain (2008-01-01). "Worldwide Spread of the Ant Cricket Myrmecophilus americanus, a Symbiont of the Longhorn Crazy Ant, Paratrechina longicornis". Sociobiology. 52: 157–165.
  10. "UNSD — Methodology". unstats.un.org. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  11. Mitchell, Peter; Lane, Paul (2013-07-04). The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-162615-9.
  12. Klees, Frank; Kuper, Rudolph (1992-01-01). New light on the Northeast African past : current prehistoric research: Contributions to a symposium, Cologne 1990. Heinrich-Barth-Institut.
  13. Hepburn, H. Randall; Radloff, Sarah E. (2013-03-14). Honeybees of Africa. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-662-03604-4.
  14. Daniel, Kendie (1988). Northeast Africa and the World Economic Order. Michigan, US. pp. 69–82.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. Project MUSE. (2020). Northeast African Studies. Retrieved March 22, 2020. "This distinguished journal is devoted to the scholarly analysis of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan, as well as the Nile Valley, the Red Sea, and the lands adjacent to both."