North Africa
Egypt
Red Sea

Gabal Hagar El Zarqa

Gabal Hagar El Zarqa is the highest point in , an unclaimed area in the desert between and 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.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 662 metres
  • Description: mountain in Bir Tawil
  • Also known as: “Gebel Ḥagar el-Zarqa”, “Gebel Hagar ez Zarqa”, “Jabal Hajar az Zarqa‘”, “Jebel Hagar ez Zarqa”, and “Jebel Hagar ez Zerqa”

Gabal Hagar El Zarqa

Latitude
21.88343° or 21° 53′ 0″ north
Longitude
33.97018° or 33° 58′ 13″ east
Elevation
662 metres (2,172 feet)
Open location code
7GHMVXMC+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 767969848
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
356365
Wiki­data ID
Q16892876
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Satellite Map

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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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