Egypt is a sovereign state.
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 . Egypt has one of the longest histories of any modern country , emerging as one of the world 's first nation states in the tenth millennium BC .