Abu Ballas
Abu Ballas is an archaeological site in the Libyan Desert of Egypt. It lies about 200 km south-west of the Dakhla Oases and consists of two isolated sandstone cones in the otherwise flat desert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 461 metres
- Description: hill in Egypt
- Also known as: “Abū Ballāş, Abu Ballas” and “Pottery Hill”
Abu Ballas
- Categories: hill, itinerary, archaeological site, and landform
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.43896° or 24° 26′ 20″ northLongitude
27.6488° or 27° 38′ 56″ eastElevation
461 metres (1,512 feet)Open location code
7GP9CJQX+HGOpenStreetMap ID
node 767966080OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Abu Ballas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبو بلاس”
- Arabic: “أبو بلاص”
- Catalan: “Abu Ballas”
- Cebuano: “Abū Ballāş”
- Dutch: “Abu Ballas”
- French: “Abou Ballas”
- French: “Abu Ballas”
- German: “Abu Ballas”
- German: “Abū Ballāṣ”
- Hungarian: “Abu Ballas, Fazekas-domb”
- Persian: “ابو بلاس”
- Russian: “Абу Баллас”
- Russian: “Абу-Баллас”
- Spanish: “Abu Ballas”
- Swahili: “Abu Ballas”
- Swedish: “Abū Ballāş”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Abu Ballas”. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.