Bahariyya
Bahariyya is an oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is 370 km from Cairo, the closest of the five western oases, and it serves as a staging post for reaching the others.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 141 metres
- Description: Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Wahat al Bahriyah”, “Al Wāḩāt al Baḩrīyah”, “Bahariya Oasis”, “Baharîya Oasis”, and “Northern Oases”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Beshmo Lodge and International Hot Spring Hotel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bawiti.
Bawiti
Town
Photo: Nomo, CC BY-SA 2.5.
El-Bawiti is a town in the Western desert in Egypt. With 15,978 inhabitants, it is the largest settlement in the Bahariya Oasis.
Bahariyya
- Categories: oasis, depression, spring, and landform
- Location: Giza Governorate, Western Desert, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.3572° or 28° 21′ 26″ northLongitude
28.863° or 28° 51′ 47″ eastPopulation
32,800Elevation
141 metres (463 feet)Open location code
7GWC9V47+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 2662966644OpenStreetMap feature
natural=valleyGeoNames ID
359360Wikidata ID
Q738878
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Satellite Map
Discover Bahariyya from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bahariyya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الواحات البحرية”
- Armenian: “Բահարիա”
- Armenian: “Բահարիյա”
- Bengali: “বাহারিয়া ওয়েসিস”
- Bulgarian: “Бахария”
- Catalan: “Bahariya”
- Cebuano: “Al Baḩrīyah”
- Cebuano: “Al Wāḩāt al Baḩrīyah”
- Chinese: “巴哈利亚绿洲”
- Chinese: “巴哈利雅綠洲”
- Chinese: “巴哈里亚绿洲”
- Chinese: “拜哈里耶綠洲”
- Chinese: “拜哈里耶绿洲”
- Danish: “Bahriyya-oasen”
- Dutch: “Bahariya Oasis”
- Dutch: “Bahariya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الواحات البحريه”
- Esperanto: “Oazo Baĥarija”
- Finnish: “Bahariya Oasis”
- French: “Al-Bahariya”
- French: “Oasis du Nord”
- German: “Al Wāḩāt al Baḩrīyah”
- German: “Bahariyya”
- German: “Bahriya”
- German: “Baḥrīya”
- German: “el-Bahriya”
- German: “Nördliche Oase”
- Greek: “Όαση Μπαχαρίγια”
- Gujarati: “બહારીયા ઓએસીસ”
- Hebrew: “נווה המדבר בחרייה”
- Hindi: “बहारिया ओएसिस”
- Hungarian: “Baharijja-oázis”
- Hungarian: “Északi Oázis”
- Indonesian: “Oasis Bahariya”
- Italian: “Bahariya”
- Japanese: “バハリヤ・オアシス”
- Japanese: “バハレイヤ・オアシス”
- Kabyle: “Baḥariyya”
- Kannada: “ಬಹರಿಯಾ ಓಯಸಿಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Ваха-эль-Бахария қаласы”
- Korean: “바하리야 오아시스”
- Latvian: “Bahariaosasia”
- Lithuanian: “Baharijos oazė”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės oazė”
- Malay: “Bahariya Oasis”
- Marathi: “बहार्या ओएसिस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahariya Oasis”
- Persian: “واحات البحریه”
- Polish: “Al-Bahrijja”
- Portuguese: “Bahariyya”
- Russian: “Бахария”
- Russian: “Северный оазис”
- Sinhala: “බහරිය ඔඑසිස්”
- Slovak: “Baharijské oázy”
- Slovenian: “Bahariya”
- South Azerbaijani: “واحات البحریه”
- Spanish: “Bahariya”
- Spanish: “Oasis del Norte”
- Swedish: “Al Wāḩāt al Baḩrīyah”
- Swedish: “Bahariya”
- Tamil: “பஹாரியா ஒயாஸிஸ்”
- Telugu: “బహరియా ఓయాసిస్”
- Thai: “บาฮาริยา โอเอซิส”
- Turkish: “Bahariya Oasis”
- Ukrainian: “Бахарія”
- Ukrainian: “Оаза Бахарія”
- Urdu: “باحاریا اوسس”
- Vietnamese: “Bahariya Oasis”
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