Nefasit
Nefasit, also known as Tappa Nefasit, is a small town in the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. Monastery of Debre Bizen is located at the mountains above.- Type: Village with 6,000 residents
- Description: town in Northern Red Sea, Eritrea
- Also known as: “Nefasit ነፋሲት نفاسيت” and “Tappa Nefasit”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Debre Bizen.
Debre Bizen
Monastery
Debre Bizen is an Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church monastery. Located at the top of Debre Bizen the mountain near the town of Nefasit in Eritrea. Its library contains many important Ge'ez manuscripts.
Nefasit
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Ghinda subregion, Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.33354° or 15° 20′ 1″ north
Longitude
39.0637° or 39° 3′ 49″ east
Population
6,000
Elevation
1,705 metres (5,594 feet)
Open location code
7G7X83M7+CF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Nefasit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نفاسيت”
- Asturian: “Nefasit”
- Cebuano: “Nefasit”
- Cebuano: “Nefasīt”
- Chinese: “納法斯特”
- Chinese: “纳法斯特”
- Dutch: “Nefasit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نفاسيت”
- French: “Nefasi”
- French: “Nefasit”
- Fulah: “Nefasit”
- German: “Nefasit”
- Italian: “Nefasit”
- Japanese: “ネファジット”
- Lithuanian: “Nefasitas”
- Persian: “نفاسیت”
- Russian: “Нэфасит”
- South Azerbaijani: “نفاسیت”
- Spanish: “Nefasit”
- Swahili: “Nefasit”
- Swedish: “Nefasit”
- Swedish: “Nefasīt”
- Tigre: “ነፋሲት”
- Urdu: “نیفاسیت”
- Zulu: “Nefasit”
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