Nakfa
Nakfa is a town in Eritrea. It is about ten hours by taxi from the Eritrean capital of Asmara. In the moment it is not possible to get a travel permit to go to Nakfa, so for tourists it is out of reach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Prof tpms, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: city in Eritrea
- Also known as: “Nakfa, Eritrea”
Nakfa
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Nakfa Subregion, Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
16.6656° or 16° 39′ 56″ northLongitude
38.4768° or 38° 28′ 37″ eastElevation
1,712 metres (5,617 feet)Open location code
7G8WMF8G+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 2050342291OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Nakfa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “النقفة”
- Arabic: “ناغفا”
- Arabic: “ناكفا”
- Arabic: “نقفا”
- Arabic: “نقفة”
- Asturian: “Nakfa, Eritrea”
- Chinese: “納克法 (厄立特里亞)”
- Chinese: “納克法”
- Danish: “Nakfa (by)”
- Danish: “Nakfa”
- Dutch: “Nakfa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نقفا”
- Finnish: “Nakfa”
- French: “Nakfa”
- Georgian: “ნაკფა”
- German: “Nakfa (Stadt)”
- German: “Nakfa”
- Greek: “Νάκφα”
- Italian: “Nacfa”
- Japanese: “ナクファ”
- Korean: “낙파 (도시)”
- Korean: “낙파”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nakfa”
- Norwegian: “Nakfa”
- Persian: “ناکفا”
- Polish: “Nakfa (miasto)”
- Polish: “Nakfa”
- Russian: “Накфа”
- South Azerbaijani: “ناکفا”
- Swahili: “Nakfa”
- Tigre: “መዲነት ናቅፋ”
- Tigre: “ነቅፈ”
- Tigrinya: “Nak’fa”
- Tigrinya: “ናቐፋ”
- Tigrinya: “ናቕፋ (ከተማ)”
- Tigrinya: “ናቕፋ”
- Turkish: “Nakfa (kent)”
- Turkish: “Nakfa”
- Ukrainian: “Накфа”
- Urdu: “ناخفا، ارتریا”
- Zulu: “Nakfa, Eritrea”
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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 “Nakfa”. Photo: Prof tpms, CC BY-SA 3.0.