Eritrea
Northern Red Sea Region
Ghinda subregion

Nefasit

Nefasit, also known as Tappa Nefasit, is a small town in the Northern Red Sea Region of . Monastery of is located at the mountains above.
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  • Type: Village with 6,000 residents
  • Description: town in Northern Red Sea, Eritrea
  • Also known as: “Tappa Nefasit”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Debre Bizen.

Monastery
Photo: Grullab, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church monastery. Located at the top of the mountain near the town of Nefasit in . Its library contains many important Ge'ez manuscripts.

Nefasit

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
node 3632097426
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
330163
Wiki­data ID
Q1969147
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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”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nefasit”. Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, CC0.