North Africa
Egypt
Red Sea

Wadi El Rayan

Wadi El Rayan is a unique nature protectorate in , , under the supervision of the Ministry of Environmental Affairs.
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  • Type: Nature reserve with an elevation of -36 metres
  • Description: nature reserve in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Wadi Al Rayyan National Park”, “Wadi ar Rayyan”, “Wadi el Rayan”, “Wadi Elrayan”, and “Wadi Raiyân”

Wadi El Rayan

Latitude
29.21009° or 29° 12′ 36″ north
Longitude
30.27114° or 30° 16′ 16″ east
Elevation
-36 metres (-118 feet)
Open location code
7GXG676C+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 220289516
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Geo­Names ID
350159
Wiki­data ID
Q6562520
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Wadi El Rayan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شلالات وادي الريان”
  • Arabic: “محمية وادي الريان”
  • Arabic: “وادى الريان”
  • Arabic: “وادي الريان”
  • Burmese: “ဝဒီအယ်ရယန်”
  • Cebuano: “Wādī ar Rayyān (libaong)”
  • Cebuano: “Wādī ar Rayyān”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محمية وادى الريان”
  • French: “Wadi Elrayan”
  • German: “Wadi ar-Raiyan”
  • German: “Wādī er-Raiyān”
  • Hungarian: “Al Rayyan Vadi Nemzeti Park”
  • Russian: “Вади-эль-Райан”
  • Swedish: “Wādī ar Rayyān”
  • Ukrainian: “Природний заповідник Ваді Ель-Раян”
  • Urdu: “وادی الریان”

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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 “Wadi El Rayan”. Photo: Rowaydaabdelgwad, CC BY-SA 4.0.