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.
Photo: Udimu, Public domain.
- Type: Region
- Description: region along the Nile river, which is located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt
- Also known as: “Awshek”, “Cush”, “Imana’a”, “Irem”, “Irishek”, “Iuntiu”, “Iuntiu-setiu”, “Kash”, “Nûbe”, “Nubi”, “Nubian”, “Nubiani”, “Nubiar”, “Nubier”, “Nubiër”, “Nubiers”, “Nubiërs”, “Nubische cultuur”, “Nubisk”, “Obernubien”, “Regne de Kush”, “Ruket”, “Ta-Netjer”, “Ta-seti”, “Ta-Seti”, “Tua”, “Unternubien”, “Wasat”, “Webet Sepat”, “Webet-Sepat”, “Куш”, “המדבר הנובי”, “النوبه”, “النوبيون”, “النوبيين”, “بلاد النوبة”, “بلاد النوبة الشمالية”, “نوبي”, “نوبيا”, “نوبيّون”, “نوبيين”, “瓦瓦特”, and “纽比亚”
Nubia
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
18.98374° or 18° 59′ 2″ north
Longitude
32.19115° or 32° 11′ 28″ east
Elevation
315 metres (1,033 feet)
Open location code
7GCJX5MR+FF
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nubia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nubië”
- Albanian: “Nubia”
- Arabic: “النوبة”
- Armenian: “Նուբիա”
- Asturian: “Nubia”
- Azerbaijani: “Nubiya”
- Basque: “Nubia”
- Belarusian: “Нубія”
- Bengali: “নুবিয়া”
- Bosnian: “Nubija”
- Breton: “Nubia”
- Bulgarian: “Нубия”
- Catalan: “Núbia”
- Chinese: “努比亚”
- Chinese: “努比亞”
- Chuvash: “Нуби”
- Croatian: “Nubija”
- Czech: “Núbie”
- Danish: “Nubien”
- Dutch: “Nubië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلاد النوبه”
- Esperanto: “Nubio”
- Estonian: “Nuubia”
- Finnish: “Nubia”
- French: “Nubie”
- Galician: “Nubia”
- Georgian: “ნუბია”
- German: “Nubien”
- Greek: “Νουβία”
- Hebrew: “נוביה”
- Hindi: “नुबिया”
- Hungarian: “Núbia”
- Icelandic: “Núbía”
- Indonesian: “Nubia”
- Italian: “Nubia”
- 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 Nynorsk: “Nubia”
- Norwegian: “Nubia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nubia”
- Persian: “نوبه”
- Polish: “Nubia”
- Portuguese: “Núbia”
- Romanian: “Nubia”
- Russian: “Нубия”
- Serbian: “Nubija”
- Serbian: “Нубија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nubija”
- Shona: “Nubhia”
- Slovak: “Núbia”
- Slovenian: “Nubija”
- Spanish: “Nubia”
- Swahili: “Nubia”
- Swedish: “Nubien”
- Tagalog: “Nubia”
- Tajik: “Нубия”
- Tamil: “நூபியா”
- Thai: “นิวเบีย”
- 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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