New Halfa
The New Halfa Project in Sudan is a 164,000 feddan site constructed in 1964 to house 50,000 Nubians displaced from Wadi Halfa, a town situated on the Nile near the border with Egypt, which was flooded when Lake Nasser formed behind the Aswan Dam.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 63,600 residents
- Description: town of the state of Kassala, Sudan
- Also known as: “Halfa Aj Jadīda”, “Halfa al Gadidah”, “Halfā al Gadīdah”, “Halfa al-Gedida”, “Halfa Aljadida”, “Halfa el Gadida”, “Halfa el Jadida”, “Ḩalfā’ al Jadīdah”, and “هلفا الغأديدة”
New Halfa
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kassala, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
15.3202° or 15° 19′ 13″ northLongitude
35.6038° or 35° 36′ 14″ eastPopulation
63,600Elevation
452 metres (1,483 feet)IATA airport code
NHFUnited Nations Location Code
SD NHFOpen location code
7G7Q8JC3+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 2828441938OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
374272Wikidata ID
Q4495188
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