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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Desert
- Description: desert
- Also known as: “Al-Nafūd”, “Al-Nefud”, “An Nafud”, “An Nafūd”, “An Nsfūd al Kabīr”, “An Nufud”, “An Nufūd”, “An Nufūd al Kabīr”, “Great Nafūd”, “Great Nefud”, “Nufud”, “Şaḩrā’ an Nsfūd”, “Şaḩrā’ an Nufūd”, and “The Nefud”
Nafud desert
- Categories: erg and landform
- Location: Al Jouf, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Arabic: “صحراء النفوذ”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Nefud”
- Basque: “Nafud”
- Bengali: “আন নুফূদ”
- Bulgarian: “Нефуд”
- Catalan: “An Nafud”
- Catalan: “Gran Nafud”
- Catalan: “Nafud”
- Cebuano: “An Nafūd”
- Chinese: “內夫得沙漠”
- Chinese: “内夫得沙漠”
- Croatian: “Nafud”
- Croatian: “Nefud”
- Czech: “Nafúd”
- Czech: “poušť Nafúd”
- Dutch: “An Nafud”
- Dutch: “Nefud-woestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا النفود الكبير”
- Esperanto: “Nefud”
- Esperanto: “Nefudo”
- Estonian: “An-Nafūd”
- Finnish: “Nafud”
- Finnish: “Nefud”
- French: “désert du Néfoud”
- French: “Désert du Néfoud”
- French: “Nefoud”
- French: “Néfoud”
- Georgian: “ნეფუდი”
- German: “Nafud”
- German: “Nefud”
- German: “Nufūd”
- Greek: “Αν Νάφουντ”
- Hebrew: “מדבר נפוד”
- Hebrew: “נפוד”
- Hindi: “अन नफ़ूद”
- Hindi: “अन-नफ़ूद रेगिस्तान”
- Hindi: “अन-नफ़ूद”
- Hindi: “अल नफ़ूद”
- Hindi: “नफ़ूद रेगिस्तान”
- Hindi: “नफूद”
- Hindi: “नफ़ूद”
- Hungarian: “Nefúd-sivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Nafud”
- Italian: “Deserto del Nafud”
- Italian: “deserto del Nefūd”
- Italian: “Deserto del Nefūd”
- Italian: “Nafud”
- Italian: “Nefud”
- Japanese: “ナフド砂漠”
- 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”
- Lithuanian: “Nefudas”
- Macedonian: “Нефуд”
- Northern Frisian: “Nafud”
- 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”
- Russian: “Нефуд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nefud”
- Slovenian: “Puščava Nefud”
- Spanish: “An-Nafud”
- Spanish: “Desierto de An-Nafud”
- Swedish: “Nafud”
- Swedish: “Nefud”
- Turkish: “Nefud Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Нефуд”
- Urdu: “صحرائے نفود”
- Uzbek: “Nefud”
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