Great Sand Sea
The Great Sand Sea is an approximately 72,000 km2 sand desert in the Sahara that stretches from western Egypt to eastern Libya, in North Africa. Most of the area is covered by sand dunes.
- Type: Desert
- Description: erg in Egypt and Libya
- Also known as: “Ägyptisches Sandmeer”, “Baḩr ar Rimāl al ‘Az̧īm”, “Bahr el Rimâl el ‘Amzi”, “Egipatsko peščano more”, “Egyptian Sand Sea”, “Great Sea of Sand-dunes”, “Große Sandsee”, “Libyan Sand Sea”, “Velké písečné moře”, and “大砂海”
Great Sand Sea
- Categories: erg and landform
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27° north
Longitude
26° east
Elevation
263 metres (863 feet)
Open location code
7GV82222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Great Sand Sea” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحر الرمال الأعظم”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Qum dənizi”
- Basque: “Hondarrezko Itsaso Handia”
- Cebuano: “Great Sand Sea”
- Chinese: “埃及大沙海”
- Chinese: “大沙海”
- Croatian: “Egipatsko pješčano more”
- Czech: “Velká písečná poušť”
- Danish: “Store sandhav”
- Dutch: “Grote Zandzee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحر الرمال الاعظم”
- Esperanto: “Granda Sablomaro”
- Finnish: “Iso Hiekkameri”
- French: “Grande mer de sable”
- German: “Ägyptische Sandsee”
- German: “Großes Sandmeer”
- Hebrew: “ים החולות הגדול”
- Hebrew: “ימת החול הגדולה”
- Hindi: “मिस्री रेत समुद्र”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-homoktenger”
- Japanese: “グレート・サンド・シー”
- Persian: “دریای ماسهای بزرگ”
- Polish: “Wielkie Morze Piasku”
- Portuguese: “Grande Mar de Areia”
- Russian: “Великое песчаное море”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Egipatsko pješčano more”
- Slovak: “Veľká piesočná púšť”
- Slovenian: “Veliko peščeno morje”
- Spanish: “Gran mar de arena”
- Swedish: “Great Sand Sea”
- Ukrainian: “Велика піщана пустеля”
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