Karima
Karima is a town in Northern State in Sudan some 400 km from Khartoum on a loop of the Nile. Karima houses the Jebel Barkal Museum. The hill of Jebel Barkal is near Karima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 19,600 residents
- Description: human settlement in Sudan
- Also known as: “Karemah”, “Karêmah”, “Karima, Sudan”, and “Kuraymah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Amun, Jebel Barkal and Mut Temple.
Temple of Amun, Jebel Barkal
Archaeological site
The Temple of Amun is an archaeological site at Jebel Barkal in Northern State, Sudan. It is situated about 400 kilometres north of Khartoum near Karima.
Mut Temple
Archaeological site
The Temple of Mut, also named Temple B300, is a temple at Jebel Barkal in Northern State, Sudan. It is situated about 400 km north of Khartoum near Karima and stands near a large bend of the Nile River, in the region that was called Nubia in ancient times.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nuri and Merowe.
Nuri
Town
Photo: Vit Hassan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile, near the Fourth Cataract. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal. Nuri is situated 4½ km northeast of Karima.
Merowe
Merowe is a town in Northern State, Sudan, near Karima Town, about 330 kilometres north of Khartoum. It borders the Nile and is the site of the Merowe Dam project, the largest contemporary hydropower project in Africa.
Karima
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.54513° or 18° 32′ 43″ northLongitude
31.84762° or 31° 50′ 51″ eastPopulation
19,600Elevation
255 metres (837 feet)Open location code
7GCHGRWX+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 1956274629OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
371870Wikidata ID
Q1729372
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Karima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كريمة”
- Arabic: “مدينة كريمة”
- Cebuano: “Kuraymah”
- Chinese: “凱里邁”
- Chinese: “卡里馬”
- Chinese: “卡里马”
- Dutch: “Karima”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كريمه”
- French: “Karima”
- German: “Kareima”
- German: “Karima”
- German: “Karīma”
- German: “Kuraima”
- German: “Kuraymah”
- German: “Kurimah”
- Irish: “Karima”
- Italian: “Karima”
- Japanese: “カリマ”
- Persian: “کریمه، سودان”
- Persian: “کریمه”
- Polish: “Kerima”
- Polish: “Kurajma”
- Portuguese: “Carima”
- Portuguese: “Karima”
- Russian: “Карима”
- South Azerbaijani: “کریمه، سودان”
- South Azerbaijani: “کریمه”
- Spanish: “Karima”
- Vietnamese: “Karima, Sudan”
- Vietnamese: “Karima”
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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 “Karima”. Photo: Retlaw Snellac, CC BY 2.0.