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Africa is the world ' s second - largest and second - most - populous continent . At about 30 . 3 million km² ( 11 . 7 million square miles ) including adjacent islands , it covers 6 % of Earth ' s total surface area and 20 . 4 % of its total land area . With 1 . 1 billion people as of ___MASK53___ , it accounts for about 15 % of the world ' s human population . The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast , the Indian Ocean to the southeast , and the Atlantic Ocean to the west . The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos . It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states ( countries ), nine territories and two " de facto " independent states with limited or no recognition . The Society of the Muslim Brothers (" "), shortened to the Muslim Brotherhood (""), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al - Banna in ___MASK41___ . The organisation gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups such as Hamas with its " model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work ", and in ___MASK85___ sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the January Revolution in 2011 . However , it suffered from periodic government crackdowns for alleged terrorist activities , and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain , Egypt , Russia , Syria , Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates . Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (; 15 ___MASK44___  28 September ___MASK80___ ) was the second President of Egypt , serving from 1956 until his death . Nasser led the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy and introduced far - reaching land reforms the following year . Following a 1954 attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member , he cracked down on the organization , put President Muhammad Naguib under house arrest , and assumed executive office , officially becoming president in June 1956 . The Gaza Strip (' ), or simply Gaza "', is a small self - governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea , that borders Egypt on the southwest for and Israel on the east and north along a border . Gaza , together with the West Bank , comprise the Palestinian territories claimed by the Palestinians as the State of Palestine . The territories of Gaza and the West Bank are separated from each other by Israeli territory . Both fall under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority , but Gaza has since June ___MASK62___ been governed by Hamas , a Palestinian Islamic organization which came to power in free elections in 2006 . It has been placed under an Israeli and U . S .- led international economic and political boycott from that time onwards . The Red Sea ( also the Erythraean Sea ) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean , lying between Africa and Asia . The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden . To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula , the Gulf of Aqaba , and the Gulf of Suez ( leading to the Suez Canal ). The Red Sea is a Global ___MASK82___ ecoregion . The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley . Egypt (; ', , " Kimi "), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt , is a transcontinental 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 . It is the world ' s only contiguous Afrasian nation . The Arab Democratic Nasserist Party ( Arabic :      , translit . al - Hizb al - ' Arabi al - Dimuqrati al - Nasseri ) is a Nasserist political party in Egypt , styling itself as the ideological successor of the old Arab Socialist Union party of Egypt ' s second president , Gamal Abdel Nasser . At the 2000 parliamentary elections , the party won three out of 454 seats . However , at the 2005 and 2010 elections , the party failed to win any seats . The Sinai Peninsula or simply Sinai ('; ', ; "") is a peninsula in Egypt , situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south , serving as a land bridge between Asia and Africa . It is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia . Sinai has a land area of about and a population of approximately 1 , ___MASK77___ , 000 people . The bulk of the peninsula is divided administratively into two of Egypt ' s ___MASK20___ governorates ( with three more straddling the Suez Canal area ). Sudan (" as - Sdn ", ), also known as North Sudan and officially the Republic of the Sudan (" Jumhriyyat as - Sdn "), is a country in Northern Africa . It is bordered by Egypt to the north , the Red Sea , Eritrea , and Ethiopia to the east , South Sudan to the south , the Central African Republic to the southwest , Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest . It is the third largest country in Africa . The River Nile divides the country into eastern and western halves . Before the Sudanese Civil War , South Sudan was part of Sudan but broke away in ___MASK17___ . Its predominant religion is Islam .