Nafud desert
The Nafud desert, or simply the Nafud, is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at, occupying a great oval depression. It is 290 kilometres long and 225 kilometres wide, with an area of 65,000 square kilometres.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Desert
- Description: desert of Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Al-Nafūd”, “Al-Nefud”, “An Nafud”, “An Nsfūd al Kabīr”, “An Nufud”, “An Nufūd”, “An Nufūd al Kabīr”, “An-Nafud”, “désert du Néfoud”, “Deserto del Nafud”, “Gran Nafud”, “Great Nafūd”, “Great Nefud”, “Nefoud”, “Nefudas”, “Nefudo”, “Nufud”, “Nufūd”, “poušť Nafúd”, “Şaḩrā’ an Nsfūd”, “Şaḩrā’ an Nufūd”, “The Nefud”, “صحراء النفوذ”, “अन नफ़ूद”, “अन-नफ़ूद”, “अल नफ़ूद”, “नफूद”, “नफ़ूद”, “नफ़ूद रेगिस्तान”, and “ナフド砂漠”
Nafud desert
- Categories: erg and landform
- Location: Al Jouf, North, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
28.5° or 28° 30′ north
Longitude
41° east
Elevation
830 metres (2,723 feet)
Open location code
7HW3G222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Nafud desert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “النفود الكبير”
- Arabic: “النفود”
- Arabic: “صحراء النفود الكبير”
- Arabic: “صحراء النفود”
- Armenian: “Մեծ Նեֆուդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Nefud”
- Basque: “Nafud”
- Bengali: “আন নুফূদ”
- Bulgarian: “Нефуд”
- Catalan: “Nafud”
- Cebuano: “An Nafūd”
- Chinese: “內夫得沙漠”
- Chinese: “内夫得沙漠”
- Croatian: “Nefud”
- Czech: “Nafúd”
- Dutch: “An Nafud”
- Dutch: “Nefud-woestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا النفود الكبير”
- Esperanto: “Nefud”
- Estonian: “An-Nafūd”
- Finnish: “Nafud”
- French: “Désert du Néfoud”
- French: “Néfoud”
- Georgian: “ნეფუდი”
- German: “Nefud”
- Greek: “Αν Νάφουντ”
- Hebrew: “מדבר נפוד”
- Hebrew: “נפוד”
- Hindi: “अन-नफ़ूद रेगिस्तान”
- Hungarian: “Nefúd-sivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Nafud”
- Italian: “deserto del Nefūd”
- Italian: “Deserto del Nefūd”
- Japanese: “ネフド砂漠”
- Kazakh: “Ülken Nefwd şöli”
- Kazakh: “Үлкен Нефуд шөлі”
- Kazakh: “ۇلكەن نەفۋد ٴشولى”
- Kirghiz: “Нефуд”
- Korean: “네푸드 사막”
- Latvian: “Nefūds”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Nefudas”
- Macedonian: “Нефуд”
- Northern Frisian: “Nefud”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “An Nafud”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nefud”
- Persian: “صحرای نفوذ”
- Persian: “نفود”
- Polish: “Wielki Nefud”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Nefud”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Nefude”
- Russian: “Большой Нефуд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nefud”
- Serbian: “Нафуд”
- Sindhi: “نفود ريگستان”
- Slovenian: “Puščava Nefud”
- Spanish: “Desierto de An-Nafud”
- Swedish: “Nafud”
- Turkish: “Nefud Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Нефуд”
- Urdu: “صحرائے نفود”
- Uzbek: “Nefud”
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