Libyan Desert

The Libyan Desert is a geographical region filling the northeastern Sahara Desert, from eastern Libya to the Western Desert of Egypt and far northwestern Sudan approximately 1,300,000 km2.
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Libyan Desert

Latitude
24.1699° or 24° 10′ 12″ north
Longitude
24.8766° or 24° 52′ 36″ east
Open location code
7GP65V9G+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 767967877
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­desert
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Wiki­data ID
Q181528
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Libyan Desert” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shkretëtira e Libisë”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الغربية”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الليبية”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الليبيه”
  • Arabic: “صحاري الحمادة”
  • Armenian: “Լիբիական անապատ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Liviya səhrası”
  • Basque: “Libiako basamortua”
  • Belarusian: “Лібійская пустэльня”
  • Belarusian: “Лівійская пустыня”
  • Bulgarian: “Либийска пустиня”
  • Bulgarian: “Либийската пустиня”
  • Catalan: “desert de Líbia”
  • Catalan: “Desert de Líbia”
  • Catalan: “Desert Líbic”
  • Catalan: “Desert Oriental de Líbia”
  • Cebuano: “Libyan Desert”
  • Chinese: “利比亚沙漠”
  • Chinese: “利比亞沙漠”
  • Chuvash: “Ливи пушхирĕ”
  • Corsican: “Disertu libicu”
  • Croatian: “Libijska pustinja”
  • Czech: “Libyjská poušť”
  • Danish: “Den libyske ørken”
  • Danish: “Libyske Ørken”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Deştê Libya”
  • Dutch: “Libische Woestijn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الصحرا الليبيه”
  • Esperanto: “Libia Dezerto”
  • Estonian: “Liibüa kõrb”
  • Finnish: “Libyan aavikko”
  • Finnish: “Libyan autiomaa”
  • French: “Désert blanc”
  • French: “Désert de Libye”
  • French: “désert Libyque”
  • French: “Désert Libyque”
  • French: “Libyan Desert”
  • Galician: “Deserto de Libia”
  • Georgian: “ლიბიის უდაბნო”
  • German: “Libyan Desert”
  • German: “Libysche Wüste”
  • Greek: “Λιβυκή Έρημος”
  • Hausa: “Hamadar Libya”
  • Hebrew: “המדבר הלובי”
  • Hebrew: “המדבר המערבי”
  • Hebrew: “חרא מדבר”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר לב”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר לוב”
  • Hindi: “लिबयन मरुस्थल”
  • Hindi: “लिबयन”
  • Hungarian: “Líbiai-sivatag”
  • Ido: “Libiana dezerto”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Libya”
  • Interlingua: “Deserto libyc”
  • Irish: “Gaineamhlach na Libia”
  • Italian: “deserto Libico-Nubiano”
  • Italian: “Deserto libico-nubiano”
  • Italian: “Deserto Libico-Nubiano”
  • Italian: “Deserto libico”
  • Italian: “Deserto occidentale”
  • Japanese: “リビア沙漠”
  • Japanese: “リビア砂漠”
  • Kazakh: “Lïvïya şöli”
  • Kazakh: “Ливия шөлі”
  • Kazakh: “ЛИВИЯ ШӨЛІ”
  • Kazakh: “لىيۆىييا ٴشولى”
  • Kirghiz: “Ливия чөлү”
  • Korean: “리비아 사막”
  • Latvian: “Lībijas tuksnesis”
  • Lithuanian: “Libijos dykuma”
  • Malay: “Gurun Libya”
  • Maltese: “Deżert Libjan”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიბიაშ ტიოზი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den libyske ørken”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Libyske ørken”
  • Norwegian: “Den libyske ørken”
  • Ossetian: “Ливийаг æдзæрæгран”
  • Persian: “صحرای لیبی”
  • Polish: “Pustynia Libijska”
  • Polish: “Pustynia Zachodnia”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto da Líbia”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto líbico”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Libian”
  • Russian: “Ливийская пустыня”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Libianach”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Libyan Desert”
  • Serbian: “Libijska pustinja”
  • Serbian: “Западна пустиња”
  • Serbian: “Либијска пустиња”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Libijska pustinja”
  • Slovak: “Líbyjská púšť”
  • Slovenian: “Libijska puščava”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Libia”
  • Spanish: “Desierto Libico”
  • Spanish: “Desierto Líbico”
  • Swedish: “Libyska öknen”
  • Swedish: “Västra öknen”
  • Tajik: “Биёбони Либиё”
  • Tajik: “Биёбони Либия”
  • Tatar: “Ливия чүле”
  • Turkish: “Libya Çölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Лівійська пустеля”
  • Urdu: “صحرا لیبیا”
  • Uzbek: “Liviya choʻli”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Libyano”
  • Welsh: “Diffeithwch Libia”
  • Welsh: “Diffeithwch Libya”
  • Wu Chinese: “利比亚沙漠”

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