<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Egypt is the most populous country in the Arabic speaking world and the third-most populous on the African continent (after Nigeria and Ethiopia). About 95% of the country's 93 million people (2017) live along the banks of the Nile and in the Nile Delta, which fans out north of Cairo; and along the Suez Canal . These regions are among the world's most densely populated, containing an average of over 1,540 per km2, as compared to 96 persons per km2 for the country as a whole . </P> <P> Small communities spread throughout the desert regions of Egypt are clustered around historic trade and transportation routes . The government has tried with mixed success to encourage migration to newly irrigated land reclaimed from the desert . However, the proportion of the population living in rural areas has continued to decrease as people move to the megacities in search of employment and a higher standard of living . </P>

Where does most of egypt's population live