{{Short description|African countries in the eastern part of North Africa}}
{{Infobox continent
|title=Northeast Africa
|image=BlankMap-North East Africa.svg
|countries={{flag|Egypt}}<br>{{flag|Libya}}<br>{{flag|Sudan}}
|area=4,655,873 km²<br>(1,797,642 sq mi)
|languages=[[Afroasiatic languages|Afroasiatic]] ([[Arabic]], [[Berber language|Berber]], [[Fur people|Fur]], [[Nubian languages|Nubian]])
|population=181 million (2024)
|demonym=Northeast African
|GDP_nominal=$527 billion (2024)
|density=40/km² (103/sq mi)
}}
'''Northeast Africa''', or '''Northeastern Africa''' is the region which is in the eastern part of [[North Africa]] that includes [[Egypt]], [[Libya]], [[Sudan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=UN Economic Commission for Africa / UN Digital Library, 1985 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/85581/files/A_40_329--E_1985_80-EN.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Kopietz |first1=Hans-Heino |chapter=Egypt, Libya and the Sudan |date=1984 |title=The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 8: From c.1940 to c.1975 |volume=8 |pages=502–563 |editor-last=Crowder |editor-first=Michael |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-africa/egypt-libya-and-the-sudan/768A24D90C83B7317B89E6AACABCA399 |access-date=2026-07-08 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-22409-3 |last2=Smith |first2=Pamela Ann}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UNDP / UNESCO policy brief, 2018 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark%3A/48223/pf0000388611}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=April 1958 |title=Council for Old World Archaeology |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/502356 |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=215–216 |doi=10.2307/502356|jstor=502356 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Edmunds |first=W. M. |date=August 2009 |title=Palaeoclimate and groundwater evolution in Africa—implications for adaptation and management |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1623/hysj.54.4.781 |journal=Hydrological Sciences Journal |language=en |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=781–792 |doi=10.1623/hysj.54.4.781 |bibcode=2009HydSJ..54..781E |issn=0262-6667|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Section A |url=https://uni-koeln.de/sfb389/a/section_a.htm |access-date=2026-07-08 |website=uni-koeln.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Meteorite Falls, Finds and Impact Craters in North East Africa: Egypt, Sudan and Libya |url=http://www.eurekaselect.com/chapter/20495 |access-date=2026-07-08 |website=eurekaselect.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moore |first=Clement Henry |date=January 1987 |title=The Northeastern Triangle: Libya, Egypt, and the Sudan |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716287489001003 |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |language=en |volume=489 |issue=1 |pages=28–39 |doi=10.1177/0002716287489001003 |issn=0002-7162|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wetterer |first1=James |last2=Hugel |first2=Sylvain |date=2008-01-01 |title=Worldwide Spread of the Ant Cricket Myrmecophilus americanus, a Symbiont of the Longhorn Crazy Ant, Paratrechina longicornis |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224049407 |journal=Sociobiology |volume=52 |pages=157–165}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UNSD — Methodology |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ |access-date=2026-07-08 |website=unstats.un.org}}</ref>

The region has a very long history of habitation with fossil finds from the early [[Hominidae|hominids]] to modern [[human]] and is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse regions of the world, being the home to many civilizations and located on an [[Indo-Mediterranean|important trade route]] that connects multiple continents.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Mitchell|first1=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IektAAAAQBAJ&dq=northeast+africa+nile&pg=PT926|title=The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology|last2=Lane|first2=Paul|date=2013-07-04|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-162615-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Klees|first1=Frank|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UKWDwAAQBAJ&q=northeast|title=New light on the Northeast African past : current prehistoric research: Contributions to a symposium, Cologne 1990|last2=Kuper|first2=Rudolph|date=1992-01-01|publisher=Heinrich-Barth-Institut|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hepburn|first1=H. Randall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4LHrCAAAQBAJ&dq=northeast+africa+nile+valley&pg=PA50|title=Honeybees of Africa|last2=Radloff|first2=Sarah E.|date=2013-03-14|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-662-03604-4|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Daniel|first=Kendie|title=Northeast Africa and the World Economic Order|year=1988|location=Michigan, US|pages=69–82}}</ref><ref>Project MUSE. (2020). ''[https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/136 Northeast African Studies]''. Retrieved March 22, 2020. "This distinguished journal is devoted to the scholarly analysis of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan, as well as the Nile Valley, the Red Sea, and the lands adjacent to both."</ref>

==See also==
* [[Genetic history of Africa]]
* [[Recent African origin of modern humans|Cradle of humanity]]
* [[Cradle of civilization]]
* [[North Africa]]
* [[Ancient Egypt]]
* [[Ancient Libya]]
* [[Nubia]]

==References==
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