Nubian Desert
The Nubian Desert is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 400,000 km2 of northeastern Sudan and northern Eritrea, between the Nile and the Red Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Nubian Desert
- Type: Desert
- Description: desert
- Category: landform
- Location: River Nile, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Nubian Desert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صحراء النوبة”
- Armenian: “Նուբիական անապատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Nubiya səhrası”
- Basque: “Nubiako basamortua”
- Belarusian: “Нубійская пустыня”
- Bengali: “নুবিয়ান মরুভূমি”
- Bulgarian: “Нубийска пустиня”
- Catalan: “desert de Núbia”
- Catalan: “Desert de Núbia”
- Cebuano: “Nubian Desert”
- Chinese: “努比亞沙漠”
- Croatian: “Nubijska pustinja”
- Czech: “Núbijská poušť”
- Dutch: “Nubische Woestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا النوبه”
- Esperanto: “Nubia dezerto”
- Estonian: “Nuubia kõrb”
- Finnish: “Nubian aavikko”
- French: “Desert de Nubie”
- French: “désert de Nubie”
- French: “Désert de Nubie”
- French: “Şaḩrā’ an Nūbyah”
- French: “صحراء النوبة”
- Georgian: “ნუბიის უდაბნო”
- German: “Nubische Wüste”
- Hebrew: “המדבר הנובי”
- Hindi: “नूबियन”
- Hungarian: “Núbiai-sivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Pasir Nubia”
- Italian: “deserto di Nubia”
- Italian: “Deserto di Nubia”
- Japanese: “ヌビア砂漠”
- Kirghiz: “Нубия чөлү”
- Korean: “누비아 사막”
- Latvian: “Nūbijas tuksnesis”
- Lithuanian: “Nubijos dykuma”
- Mingrelian: “ნუბიაშ ტიოზი”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuubisk Wüüst”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den nubiske ørken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den nubiske ørkenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nubiske ørken”
- Norwegian: “Den nubiske ørken”
- Persian: “بیابان نوبیه”
- Polish: “Pustynia Nubijska”
- Portuguese: “Deserto da Núbia”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Núbia”
- Romanian: “Deșertul Nubian”
- Russian: “Нубийская пустыня”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Nubianach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nubian Desert”
- Serbian: “Nubijska pustinja”
- Serbian: “Нубијска пустиња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nubijska pustinja”
- Slovak: “Núbijská púšť”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Nubia”
- Swedish: “Nubiska öknen”
- Tajik: “Биёбони Нубия”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายนิวเบีย”
- Turkish: “Nübye Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Нубійська пустеля”
- Uzbek: “Nubiya choʻli”
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