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.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Desert
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as: “Baiuda”, “Bajuda dezerto”, “Bayuda Steppe”, “Bayûdah Desert”, “Bayudaørkenen”, “Bayudha Desert”, “Bayyudah”, “Desert de Bayuda”, “Désert de Bayuda”, “Oasi de Baiuda”, “Oasi de Bayuda”, “Oasi de Bayyudah”, “Sahra‘ Bayyudah”, and “ბაიუდას უდაბნო”
Bayuda Desert
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: River Nile, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18° north
Longitude
33° east
Elevation
528 metres (1,732 feet)
Open location code
7GCM2222+22
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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”
- Asturian: “Desiertu Bayuda”
- Basque: “Bayudako basamortua”
- Bulgarian: “Байюда”
- Bulgarian: “Пустиня Байюда”
- Catalan: “Bayuda”
- Cebuano: “Şaḩrā‘ Bayyūḑah”
- Cebuano: “Şaḩrā’ Bayyūḑah”
- Chinese: “百卢达沙漠”
- Czech: “Bajuda”
- Dutch: “Bayuda Desert”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا بيوضه”
- Esperanto: “Bajuda-Dezerto”
- French: “désert de Bayouda”
- French: “Désert de Bayouda”
- Georgian: “ბაიუდის უდაბნო”
- German: “Bajudasteppe”
- German: “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: “Bayuda”
- Persian: “بیابان بیوضه”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Baiuda”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Bayuda”
- Russian: “Байуда”
- 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”
- “Bajuda”
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