Qattara Depression
The Qattara Depression is a depression in northwestern Egypt, specifically in the Matruh Governorate. The depression is part of the Western Desert of Egypt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Depression with an elevation of -76 metres
- Description: depression in the Western Desert of Egypt
- Also known as: “Depressione di El-Qattara”, “Monkhafad el Qattara”, “Munkhafaḑ al Qaţţārah”, and “Qattarah Depression”
Qattara Depression
- Categories: depression, endorheic basin, and landform
- Location: Matruh Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Qattara Depression” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Qattara-laagte”
- Arabic: “منخفض القطارة”
- Arabic: “منخفض القطاره”
- Armenian: “Կատարա”
- Basque: “Qattara sakonunea”
- Bengali: “কাত্তারা অবতল”
- Bulgarian: “Катара”
- Catalan: “Depressió de Qattara”
- Cebuano: “Qattara Depression”
- Chinese: “卡塔拉洼地”
- Chinese: “盖塔拉洼地”
- Chinese: “蓋塔拉窪地”
- Croatian: “Depresija Katara”
- Croatian: “Katara”
- Croatian: “Quattara”
- Czech: “Kattarská proláklina”
- Danish: “Qattara-sænkningen”
- Dutch: “Kattara-depressie”
- Dutch: “Kattaradepressie”
- Dutch: “Qattara depressie”
- Dutch: “Qattara-depressie”
- Dutch: “Qattara”
- Dutch: “Quattara-depressie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منخفض القطارة”
- Esperanto: “Depresio Kattara”
- Esperanto: “depresio Qattara”
- Finnish: “Qattaran syvänkö”
- French: “dépression de Qattara”
- French: “Dépression de Qattara”
- German: “Katara-Senke”
- German: “Kattara-Senke”
- German: “Kattara”
- German: “Kattarasenke”
- German: “Munkhafad al-Qattarah”
- German: “Qattara Depression”
- German: “Qattara-Senke”
- German: “Qaṭṭāra-Senke”
- Hebrew: “שקע קטארה”
- Hebrew: “שקע קטרה”
- Hindi: “क़त्तारा द्रोणी”
- Hungarian: “Kattara-mélyföld”
- Indonesian: “Cekungan Qattara”
- Irish: “Logán Qattara”
- Italian: “Depressione di Qattara”
- Italian: “Qattara”
- Japanese: “カッターラ低地”
- Japanese: “カッタラ窪地”
- Korean: “카타라 저지”
- Latvian: “Katāras ieplaka”
- Lithuanian: “Katara”
- Lithuanian: “Kataros įduba”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qattarafordypningen”
- Norwegian: “Qattarafordypningen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “depression de Qattara”
- Persian: “فرورفتگی قطاره”
- Polish: “Kattara”
- Polish: “Munchafat al-Kattara”
- Polish: “Qattara”
- Portuguese: “Depressão de Qattara”
- Romanian: “Depresiunea Qattara”
- Russian: “Впадина Каттара”
- Russian: “Каттара”
- Serbian: “Katara”
- Serbian: “Катара”
- Slovak: “Kattarská preliačina”
- Spanish: “Depresion de Qattara”
- Spanish: “depresión de Qattara”
- Spanish: “Depresión de Qattara”
- Swedish: “Munkhafad al-Qattarah”
- Swedish: “Qattara-depressionen”
- Swedish: “Qattara”
- Swedish: “Qattaradepressionen”
- Swedish: “Qattarasänkan”
- Turkish: “Kattara Çöküntüsü”
- Ukrainian: “Западина Каттара”
- Ukrainian: “Каттара”
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