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Northern Sudan
River Nile

Meroë

Meroë is an ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in , approximately 200 km northeast of . The site is home to more than 200 Nubian pyramids in three separate groups.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in Northern Sudan
  • Also known as: “Meroe” and “Merowe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pyramids of Meroë.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
The are a large number of Nubian pyramids, encompassing three cemeteries near the ancient city of Meroë. The Meroë pyramids date to the later stage of the Kingdom of Kush and were burial places for Kushite monarchs, other members of the royal family, and important officials and dignitaries.

Meroë

Latitude
16.9381° or 16° 56′ 17″ north
Longitude
33.7481° or 33° 44′ 53″ east
Elevation
364 metres (1,194 feet)
Open location code
7G8MWPQX+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2491790685
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
370131
Wiki­data ID
Q5780
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Meroë” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Meroë”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μερόη”
  • Arabic: “أهرامات مروي”
  • Arabic: “مروي”
  • Asturian: “Meroe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meroe”
  • Bashkir: “Мероэ”
  • Basque: “Meroe”
  • Belarusian: “Мероэ”
  • Belarusian: “Мэраэ”
  • Bengali: “মেরওয়ে”
  • Breton: “Meroe”
  • Catalan: “Meroe”
  • Catalan: “Mèroe”
  • Chinese: “麥羅埃”
  • Chinese: “麦罗埃”
  • Croatian: “Meroe”
  • Czech: “Meroe”
  • Danish: “Meroë”
  • Dutch: “Meroe”
  • Dutch: “Meroë”
  • Esperanto: “Meroe”
  • Finnish: “Meroë”
  • French: “Méroé”
  • Galician: “Meroë”
  • Georgian: “მეროე”
  • German: “Meroe”
  • German: “Meroë”
  • Greek: “Μερόη”
  • Hebrew: “מרואה”
  • Hindi: “मेरोई”
  • Hungarian: “Meroé”
  • Icelandic: “Meróe”
  • Indonesian: “Meroë”
  • Irish: “Meroë”
  • Italian: “Meroe”
  • Italian: “Meroë”
  • Japanese: “メロエ”
  • Korean: “메로에”
  • Kotava: “Meroe”
  • Latvian: “Meroe”
  • Lithuanian: “Meroė”
  • Lithuanian: “Merojė”
  • Maithili: “मेरोइ”
  • Malagasy: “Meroë”
  • Malay: “Meruwi”
  • Maltese: “Meroe”
  • Maltese: “Meroë”
  • Nepali: “मेरोइ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meroë”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meroe”
  • Norwegian: “Meroë”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Meroe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Meròe”
  • Persian: “مرواه”
  • Polish: “Meroe”
  • Portuguese: “Meroe”
  • Portuguese: “Meroé”
  • Romanian: “Meroë”
  • Russian: “Мероэ”
  • Scots: “Meroë”
  • Serbian: “Meroz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meroe”
  • Slovenian: “Meroë”
  • Somali: “Meroe”
  • Spanish: “Meroe”
  • Swahili: “Meroë”
  • Swedish: “Meroë”
  • Thai: “เมโรวี”
  • Turkish: “Meroe”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерое”
  • Urdu: “مرواہ”
  • Venetian: “Meroe”
  • Vietnamese: “Meroe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Meroë”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Meroë”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.