Gabal Hagar El Zarqa
Gabal Hagar El Zarqa is the highest point in Bir Tawil, an unclaimed area in the Nubian desert between Egypt and Sudan in Northeast Africa. Due to a long-standing disagreement over the location of that border, its jurisdiction is unclear; it is said by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to be in Egypt.- Peak rising to 662 metres (2,172 feet)
- Description: mountain in Bir Tawil
- Also known as“Gebel Ḥagar el-Zarqa”“Gebel Hagar ez Zarqa”“Jabal Hajar az Zarqa‘”“Jebel Hagar ez Zarqa”“Jebel Hagar ez Zerqa”
Gabal Hagar El Zarqa
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Latitude
21.88343° or 21° 53′ 0″ north
Longitude
33.97018° or 33° 58′ 13″ east
Open location code
7GHMVXMC+93
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Gabal Hagar El Zarqa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل حجر الزرقاء”
- Asturian: “Jebel Hagar ez Zarqa”
- Cebuano: “Jabal Ḩajar az Zarqā‘”
- Cebuano: “Jabal Ḩajar az Zarqā’”
- Dutch: “Jabal Ḩajar az Zarqā‘”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جـبـل حـجـر الـزرقا”
- French: “Gabal Hagar El Zarqa”
- German: “Dschabal Hagar El Zarqa”
- Greek: “Τζαμπάλ Χαζάρ ελ Ζαρκά”
- Ladin: “Jebel Hagar ez Zarqa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gabal Hagar El Zarqa”
- Norwegian: “Gabal Hagar El Zarqa”
- Persian: “کوه حجر الزرقا”
- Polish: “Dżabal Hagar El Zarqa”
- Spanish: “Gabal Hagar El Zarqa”
- Swedish: “Jabal Ḩajar az Zarqā‘”
- Swedish: “Jabal Ḩajar az Zarqā’”
- Uzbek: “Hajar al-Zarqa togʻi”
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