United Arab Republic (Manifest Destiny)

The United Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية المتحدة al-Jumhūriyyah al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah, UAR) is a transcontinental country spanning from the northeastern corner of Africa to the Western Asia. lies within North Africa and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Carthage and Sahara to the west, Ethiopia to the southeast, Darfur to the southwest, and Sahel to the south.

The UAR is the largest country in Arab world and northern Africa and is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East, and the 8th most populated in the world. The great majority of its over 117 million people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 100,000 sq km, where the only arable land is found. The large regions of the Sahara Desert, which constitute most of the UAR's territory, are sparsely inhabited. About half of the Ittihadi citizens live in urban areas in its African part, with most spread across the densely populated centers of greater Cairo, Alexandria, Gaza, Tripoli, Benghazi, Khartoum, Damascus, Bagdad, Bursa, and Qud.

The UAR is considered to be a regional power in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. It has the 17th largest oil reserves in the world, mostly in Sudan and Iraq, and the third largest in Africa. With one of the largest and most diversified economies in the Middle East, the UAR has the second-largest economy in Africa. The UAR is a founding member of the African Union, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the World Youth Forum. Both predecessors of the UAR, Egypt and Syria, were the founding members of the United Nations and the Arab League. Egypt was also a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement.