» This article's about the contemporary North African ethnic group. See Egyptians (disambiguation) for other uses. Egyptians (Standard Arabic: ; Egyptian Arabic: ; Coptic: )'s the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt. Egyptian identity's closely tied to the Geography of Egypt, dominated by the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by desert both to the east an… (More on Egyptians)