Upper Egypt (Arabic: صعيد مصر Sa'id Misr) is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile valley, that extends between Nubia, and downriver (northwards) to Lower Egypt.
Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or egypt:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,”
—Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)