Sahel
Sudan
Northern State

Soleb

Soleb is an ancient town in , in present-day . The site is located north of the third , on the western side of the Nile. It was discovered and described by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1844.
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Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wawa.

Village
is a town in northern near the Nile River, located at 20°26′N 30°21′E. The town sits directly across the Nile River from the ancient city of Soleb Pebble tools from the early Stone Age have been found in this area including an early hand axe dating roughly 1.5 million to 200,000 years ago…

Soleb

Latitude
20.47235° or 20° 28′ 20″ north
Longitude
30.31234° or 30° 18′ 44″ east
Open location code
7GGGF8C6+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4187344105
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q1457914
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Soleb” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “صوليب”
  • Catalan: “Soleb”
  • Dutch: “Soleb”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صوليب”
  • French: “Soleb”
  • French: “temple d’Amon”
  • German: “Soleb”
  • German: “Sulib”
  • Hebrew: “סולב”
  • Persian: “صولیب”
  • Polish: “Soleb”
  • Portuguese: “Solebe”
  • Spanish: “Soleb”
  • Ukrainian: “Солеб”

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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 Wikipedia page “Soleb”. Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.