Less than 2% of Egyptian population live in the Sinai, and hence Egypt even though technically transcontinental is usually considered an African country. But when discussing the geopolitical region of the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt is usually grouped with the Asian countries as part of the Middle East, while Egypt's western neighbor Libya is grouped with the remaining North African countries as the Maghreb."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundarie ... continents
I don't consider Wikipedia to be an always reliable source, but the hosting of "Africa 2016" in Sharm caused me to check.
