pm#North_Africa
  supertype:  #region  a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
  part of:  pm#Mediterranean_region  #Africa (pm)
  part:  #Morocco__Kingdom_of_Morocco__Maroc__Marruecos__Al-Magrib  a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1956
     part:  #Casablanca  a port on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco
     part:  #El_Aaium  a town in Morocco near the Atlantic coast
     part:  #Fez__Fes  a city in north central Morocco; religious center
     part:  #Marrakesh__Marrakech  a city in western Morocco; tourist center
     part:  #Rabat__capital_of_Morocco  the capital of Morocco; located in the northwestern on the Atlantic coast
     part:  #Tangier__Tangiers  a city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar; "the first tangerines were shipped from Tangier to Europe in 1841"
     part:  #Western_Sahara__Spanish_Sahara  an area in northwestern Africa with rich phosphate deposits; under Moroccan control since 1992
     part:  #Jebel_Musa__Abila__Abyla  a promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules
  part:  #Tunisia__Republic_of_Tunisia  a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956; "southern Tunisia is mostly desert"
     part:  #battle_of_Zama__Zama  the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War
     part:  #Tunis__capital_of_Tunisia  the capital and principal port of Tunisia
     part:  #Sfax__Safaqis  the second largest city in Tunisia; located in eastern Tunisia near a phosphate region
  part:  #Algeria__Democratic_and_Popular_Republic_of_Algeria__Algerie  a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s
     part:  #Algiers__Algerian_capital  an ancient port on the Mediterranean; the capital and largest city of Algeria
     part:  #Oran  a port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city
  part:  #Egypt__Arab_Republic_of_Egypt__United_Arab_Republic  a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
     part:  #Aswan_High_Dam__Aswan_Dam__High_Dam  one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
     part:  #Sinai_Peninsula__Sinai  a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
        part:  #Sinai_Desert__Sinai  a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt
        part:  #Mount_Sinai__Sinai  a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments
     part:  #El_Iskandriyah__Alexandria  the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt
     part:  #Aswan__Assuan__Assouan  an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; site of the Aswan High Dam
     part:  #Cairo__El_Qahira__Egyptian_capital__capital_of_Egypt  the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just south of the Nile Delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
     part:  #El_Alamein  a village west of Alexandria on the north coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942
     part:  #Giza__El_Giza  an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx
     part:  #Memphis.Egypt__memphi  an ancient city of Egypt (S of Cairo)
     part:  #Luxor  a city in central Egypt on the east bank of the Nile; site of the Temple of Luxor
     part:  #Saqqara__Saqqarah__Sakkara  a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids (the Step Pyramid)
     part:  #Suez  a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal
     part:  #Suez_Canal  a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
     part:  #Lake_Nasser__Nasser  lake in Egypt formed by dams built on the Nile River at Aswan
     part:  #Nile_River__Nile  world's longest river (4187 miles); flows northern through Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization

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