Qattara Depression

The Qattara Depression is a depression in northwestern Egypt, specifically in the Matruh Governorate. The depression is part of the Western Desert of Egypt.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: depression in the Western Desert of Egypt
  • Also known as: “Munkhafaḑ al Qaţţārah, Munkhafad al Qattarah, Qattarah Depression”

Qattara Depression

Latitude
30° north
Longitude
27.5° or 27° 30′ east
Open location code
8G292G22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768751589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q841050
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Qattara Depression” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Qattara-laagte”
  • Arabic: “منخفض القطارة”
  • Arabic: “منخفض القطاره”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Կատտարայի իջվածք”
  • Armenian: “Կատարա”
  • Basque: “Qattara sakonunea”
  • Bengali: “কাত্তারা অবতল”
  • Bulgarian: “Катара”
  • Catalan: “Depressió de Qattara”
  • Cebuano: “Qattara Depression”
  • Chinese: “卡塔拉洼地”
  • Chinese: “盖塔拉洼地”
  • Chinese: “蓋塔拉窪地”
  • Croatian: “Depresija Katara”
  • Croatian: “Katara”
  • Croatian: “Quattara”
  • Czech: “Kattarská proláklina”
  • Danish: “Qattara-sænkningen”
  • Dutch: “Kattara-depressie”
  • Dutch: “Kattaradepressie”
  • Dutch: “Qattara depressie”
  • Dutch: “Qattara-depressie”
  • Dutch: “Qattara”
  • Dutch: “Quattara-depressie”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منخفض القطارة”
  • Esperanto: “Depresio Kattara”
  • Esperanto: “depresio Qattara”
  • Finnish: “Qattaran syvänkö”
  • French: “dépression de Qattara”
  • French: “Dépression de Qattara”
  • German: “Katara-Senke”
  • German: “Kattara-Senke”
  • German: “Kattara”
  • German: “Kattarasenke”
  • German: “Munkhafad al-Qattarah”
  • German: “Qattara Depression”
  • German: “Qattara-Senke”
  • German: “Qaṭṭāra-Senke”
  • Hebrew: “שקע קטארה”
  • Hebrew: “שקע קטרה”
  • Hindi: “क़त्तारा द्रोणी”
  • Hungarian: “Kattara-mélyföld”
  • Indonesian: “Cekungan Qattara”
  • Irish: “Logán Qattara”
  • Italian: “Depressione di Qattara”
  • Italian: “Qattara”
  • Japanese: “カッターラ低地”
  • Japanese: “カッタラ窪地”
  • Korean: “카타라 저지”
  • Latvian: “Katāras ieplaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Katara”
  • Lithuanian: “Kataros įduba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qattarafordypningen”
  • Norwegian: “Qattarafordypningen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “depression de Qattara”
  • Persian: “فرورفتگی قطاره”
  • Polish: “Kattara”
  • Polish: “Munchafat al-Kattara”
  • Polish: “Qattara”
  • Portuguese: “Depressão de Qattara”
  • Romanian: “Depresiunea Qattara”
  • Russian: “Впадина Каттара”
  • Russian: “Каттара”
  • Serbian: “Katara”
  • Serbian: “Катара”
  • Slovak: “Kattarská preliačina”
  • Spanish: “Depresion de Qattara”
  • Spanish: “depresión de Qattara”
  • Spanish: “Depresión de Qattara”
  • Swedish: “Munkhafad al-Qattarah”
  • Swedish: “Qattara-depressionen”
  • Swedish: “Qattara”
  • Swedish: “Qattaradepressionen”
  • Swedish: “Qattarasänkan”
  • Turkish: “Kattara Çöküntüsü”
  • Ukrainian: “Западина Каттара”
  • Ukrainian: “Каттара”

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