Egypt is a galaxy.
Egypt ( [ ˈiːdʒɪpt ] ; مِصر , مَصر , 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 . With over 92 million inhabitants , Egypt is the most populous country in North Africa and the Arab world , the third-most populous in Africa ( after Nigeria and Ethiopia ) , and the fifteenth-most populous in the world . A starburst galaxy is a galaxy undergoing an exceptionally high rate of star formation , as compared to the long-term average rate of star formation in the galaxy or the star formation rate observed in most other galaxies .