Bayuda Desert
The Bayuda Desert, located at, is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 100,000 km2 of northeast Sudan north of Omdurman and south of Korti, embraced by the great bend of the Nile in the north, east, and south and limited by the Wadi Muqaddam in the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Desert
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as: “Bayuda Steppe”, “Bayûdah Desert”, “Bayudha Desert”, and “Sahra‘ Bayyudah”
Bayuda Desert
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: River Nile, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bayuda Desert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صحراء بيوضة”
- Basque: “Bayudako basamortua”
- Bulgarian: “Байюда”
- Bulgarian: “Пустиня Байюда”
- Catalan: “Baiuda”
- Catalan: “Bayuda”
- Catalan: “Bayyudah”
- Catalan: “Desert de Bayuda”
- Catalan: “Oasi de Baiuda”
- Catalan: “Oasi de Bayuda”
- Catalan: “Oasi de Bayyudah”
- Cebuano: “Şaḩrā‘ Bayyūḑah”
- Cebuano: “Şaḩrā’ Bayyūḑah”
- Chinese: “百卢达沙漠”
- Dutch: “Bayuda Desert”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا بيوضه”
- Esperanto: “Bajuda dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Bajuda-Dezerto”
- French: “désert de Bayouda”
- French: “Désert de Bayouda”
- French: “Désert de Bayuda”
- Georgian: “ბაიუდას უდაბნო”
- Georgian: “ბაიუდის უდაბნო”
- German: “Bajudasteppe”
- German: “Bayuda”
- Italian: “Bayuda”
- Italian: “Deserto di Bayuda”
- Japanese: “バユダ砂漠”
- Korean: “바유다 사막”
- Ladin: “Bayuda”
- Lithuanian: “Bajuda”
- Mingrelian: “ბაიუდიშ ტიოზი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayuda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayudaørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Bayuda”
- Persian: “بیابان بیوضه”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Baiuda”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Bayuda”
- Russian: “Байуда”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bayuda Desert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Bhayuda”
- Serbian: “Pustinja Bajuda”
- Serbian: “Пустиња Бајуда”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Bayuda”
- Swedish: “Bajuda”
- Turkish: “Bayuda Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Баюда”
- Uzbek: “Bayuda choʻli”
- Venetian: “Deserto de Bayuda”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Bayuda”
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