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Egypt
The country in northeastern Africa along the Nile, known in Japan chiefly for its ancient civilization — the pyramids, the Sphinx, and pharaohs — which is a staple of school curricula and museum exhibitions.
エジプト comes from the English/Latin "Egypt," ultimately from ancient Greek.
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Cultural note
In Japan, エジプト is associated above all with ancient history — ピラミッド (pyramids), スフィンクス (Sphinx), and ファラオ (pharaohs) — a fixture of school textbooks and popular museum exhibitions, rather than with the modern country.