Nubia
Nubia is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the confluence of the Blue and White Niles and the First Cataract. It was the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Africa, the Kerma culture, which lasted from around 2500 BC until its conquest by the New Kingdom of Egypt under Pharaoh Thutmose I around 1500 BC.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Nubia
- Type: Region
- Description: region along the Nile river, which is located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nubia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nubië”
- Albanian: “Nubia”
- Arabic: “النوبة”
- Arabic: “النوبه”
- Arabic: “النوبيون”
- Arabic: “النوبيين”
- Arabic: “بلاد النوبة الشمالية”
- Arabic: “بلاد النوبة”
- Arabic: “نوبه”
- Arabic: “نوبي”
- Arabic: “نوبيا”
- Arabic: “نوبيّون”
- Arabic: “نوبيين”
- Armenian: “Նուբիա”
- Asturian: “Nubia”
- Azerbaijani: “Nubiya”
- Basque: “Nubia”
- Basque: “Nubiar”
- Belarusian: “Нубія”
- Bengali: “নুবিয়া”
- Bosnian: “Nubija”
- Breton: “Nubia”
- Bulgarian: “Нубия”
- Catalan: “Awshek”
- Catalan: “Imana’a”
- Catalan: “Irem”
- Catalan: “Irishek”
- Catalan: “Iuntiu-setiu”
- Catalan: “Iuntiu”
- Catalan: “Kash”
- Catalan: “Nubi”
- Catalan: “Núbia”
- Catalan: “Regne de Kush”
- Catalan: “Ruket”
- Catalan: “Ta-Netjer”
- Catalan: “Ta-Seti”
- Catalan: “Tua”
- Catalan: “Wasat”
- Catalan: “Webet Sepat”
- Catalan: “Webet-Sepat”
- Chinese: “努比亚”
- Chinese: “努比亞”
- Chinese: “瓦瓦特”
- Chinese: “纽比亚”
- Chuvash: “Нуби”
- Croatian: “Nubija”
- Czech: “Nubie”
- Czech: “Núbie”
- Danish: “Nubien”
- Dutch: “Nubie”
- Dutch: “Nubië”
- Dutch: “Nubier”
- Dutch: “Nubiër”
- Dutch: “Nubiers”
- Dutch: “Nubiërs”
- Dutch: “Nubische cultuur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “النوبه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلاد النوبه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نوبيين”
- Esperanto: “Nubio”
- Estonian: “Nuubia”
- Finnish: “Nubia”
- Finnish: “Nuubia”
- French: “Nubie”
- Galician: “Nubia”
- Georgian: “ნუბია”
- German: “Nubien”
- German: “Obernubien”
- German: “Ta-seti”
- German: “Unternubien”
- Greek: “Νουβία”
- Hebrew: “המדבר הנובי”
- Hebrew: “נוביה”
- Hindi: “नुबिया”
- Hungarian: “Núbia”
- Icelandic: “Núbía”
- Indonesian: “Nubia”
- Italian: “Nubia”
- Italian: “Nubiani”
- Japanese: “ヌビア”
- Javanese: “Nubia”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Nubiya”
- Kazakh: “Nwbïya”
- Kazakh: “Нубия”
- Kazakh: “نۋبىييا”
- Kirghiz: “Нубия”
- Korean: “누비아”
- Latin: “Nubia”
- Latvian: “Nūbija”
- Lithuanian: “Nubija”
- Macedonian: “Нубија”
- Malagasy: “Nobia”
- Malay: “Nubia”
- Mingrelian: “ნუბია”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuubien”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nubia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nubisk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nubia”
- Norwegian: “Nubia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nubia”
- Persian: “نوبه”
- Polish: “Nubia”
- Portuguese: “Núbia”
- Romanian: “Nubia”
- Romanian: “Nubian”
- Russian: “Нубия”
- Serbian: “Nubija”
- Serbian: “Куш”
- Serbian: “Нубија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nubija”
- Shona: “Nubhia”
- Slovak: “Núbia”
- Slovenian: “Nubija”
- Spanish: “Cush”
- Spanish: “Nubia”
- Spanish: “Nubio”
- Swahili: “Nubia”
- Swedish: “Nubien”
- Swedish: “Nubisk”
- Tagalog: “Nubia”
- Tajik: “Нубия”
- Tamil: “நூபியா”
- Thai: “นิวเบีย”
- Turkish: “Nûbe”
- Turkish: “Nübye”
- Udmurt: “Нубия”
- Ukrainian: “Нубія”
- Urdu: “نوبہ”
- Urdu: “نوبیا”
- Uzbek: “Nubiya”
- Venetian: “Nubia”
- Vietnamese: “Nubia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nubia”
- Wu Chinese: “努比亚”
- Yue Chinese: “努比亞”
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