Negev
The Negev or Naqab is the name for a desert and semidesert area in southern Israel. Today, it forms the bulk of the Southern District of Israel, whose largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba, in the north of the Negev.
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Negev
- Desert
- …lies at an elevation of 539 metres (1,768 feet)
- …is also known as “HaNegev”
- Description: desert and semidesert region of southern Israel
- Location
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Latitude of center
30.5° or 30° 30′ north
Longitude of center
34.9167° or 34° 55′ east
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Negev” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “النقب”
- Arabic: “صحراء النقب”
- Armenian: “Նեգև”
- Asturian: “Négueb”
- Asturian: “Néguev”
- Azerbaijani: “Negev”
- Azerbaijani: “Neqev”
- Bashkir: “Негев, Негев сүллеге, Негев сүле, Нәҡәп”
- Bashkir: “Негев”
- Basque: “Negev”
- Belarusian: “Негеў”
- Belarusian: “Нэгеў”
- Belarusian: “Пустыня Негеў”
- Belarusian: “Фаран”
- Bengali: “নেগেভ”
- Bosnian: “Negev”
- Breton: “Negev”
- Bulgarian: “Негев”
- Catalan: “Desert del Nègueb”
- Catalan: “Nègev”
- Catalan: “Nègueb”
- Catalan: “Neguev”
- Cebuano: “Negeb”
- Cebuano: “Negev”
- Cebuano: “Neguev”
- Cebuano: “Néguev”
- Central Kurdish: “نێگێڤ”
- Chinese: “內蓋夫”
- Chinese: “内盖夫”
- Chinese: “内盖夫沙漠”
- Croatian: “Negeb”
- Croatian: “Negev”
- Czech: “Negev”
- Czech: “Negevská poušť”
- Czech: “poušť Negev”
- Danish: “Negev”
- Dutch: “Negeb”
- Dutch: “Negev”
- Egyptian Arabic: “النقب”
- Esperanto: “Dezerto de Negevo”
- Esperanto: “Negebo”
- Esperanto: “Negev”
- Esperanto: “Negevo”
- Estonian: “Negev”
- Estonian: “Negevi kõrb”
- Finnish: “Negev”
- Finnish: “Negevin aavikko”
- Finnish: “Negevin autiomaa”
- French: “Désert du Neguev”
- French: “Désert du Néguev”
- French: “Negeb”
- French: “Négev”
- French: “Neguev”
- French: “Néguev”
- Galician: “Negev”
- Georgian: “ნეგევი”
- German: “An-Naqb”
- German: “Negeb”
- German: “Negev”
- German: “Negew”
- Greek: “Νεγκέβ”
- Greek: “Νέγκεβ”
- Hebrew: “הנגב”
- Hebrew: “נגב”
- Hebrew: “נֶגֶב”
- Hindi: “नेगेव रेगिस्तान”
- Hungarian: “Negev-sivatag”
- Ido: “Dezerto Negev”
- Indonesian: “Negev”
- Italian: “deserto del Negev”
- Italian: “Deserto del Negev”
- Italian: “Negev”
- Italian: “Negheb”
- Italian: “Neghev”
- Japanese: “ネゲヴ”
- Japanese: “ネゲブ”
- Japanese: “ネゲブ地方”
- Japanese: “ネゲブ砂漠”
- Javanese: “Nègèb”
- Javanese: “Negev”
- Kabyle: “Nigib”
- Kazakh: “Негев”
- Korean: “네게브 사막”
- Ladino: “Negev”
- Latin: “Negev”
- Latvian: “Negevs”
- Lithuanian: “Negev”
- Lithuanian: “Negevas”
- Lithuanian: “Negevo dykuma”
- Luxembourgish: “Negev”
- Macedonian: “Негев”
- Maithili: “नेगेव”
- Malay: “Naqab”
- Malayalam: “നെഗേവ്”
- Manx: “Negev”
- Mongolian: “Негевийн цөл”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Negev-ørkenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Negev”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Negevørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Negev”
- Norwegian: “Negevørkenen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Neguèv”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nèguev”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܐܓܒ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܓܒ”
- Panjabi: “ਨੇਗੇਵ”
- Persian: “بیابان نگب”
- Persian: “صحرای نقب”
- Persian: “صحرای نگب”
- Persian: “صحرای نگو”
- Persian: “نگو”
- Polish: “Negew”
- Polish: “Pustynia Negev”
- Polish: “Pustynia Negew”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Negev”
- Portuguese: “Deserto do negev”
- Portuguese: “Deserto do neguev”
- Portuguese: “Negev”
- Portuguese: “Neguebe”
- Portuguese: “Neguev”
- Portuguese: “Negueve”
- Romanian: “Nagev”
- Romanian: “Negev”
- Romanian: “Neghev”
- Russian: “Негев”
- Russian: “Пустыня Негев”
- Russian: “Фаран”
- Scots: “Negev”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Negev”
- Serbian: “Negev”
- Serbian: “Негеб”
- Serbian: “Негев”
- Serbian: “Неђев”
- Serbian: “Пустиња Негев”
- Serbian: “Пустиња Неђев”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Negev”
- Slovak: “Negev”
- Slovak: “Negevská púšť”
- Slovenian: “Negev”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Negev”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Neguev”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Néguev”
- Spanish: “Desierto del Negev”
- Spanish: “Desierto del Neguev”
- Spanish: “Desierto del Néguev”
- Spanish: “Negev”
- Spanish: “Négev”
- Spanish: “Negueb”
- Spanish: “Neguev”
- Spanish: “Néguev”
- Swahili: “Negev”
- Swedish: “Negev”
- Swedish: “Negevöknen”
- Swiss German: “An-Naqb”
- Swiss German: “Negeb”
- Swiss German: “Negev”
- Swiss German: “Negew”
- Tagalog: “Al-Naqab”
- Tagalog: “Naqab”
- Tagalog: “Negeb”
- Tagalog: “Negev”
- Tagalog: “Negueb”
- Tamil: “நெகேவ்”
- Tatar: “Нәкаб”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายเนเกฟ”
- Turkish: “Necef Çölü”
- Turkish: “Negef Çölü”
- Turkish: “Negev Çölü”
- Turkish: “Negev”
- Ukrainian: “Негев”
- Ukrainian: “Неґев”
- Urdu: “صحرائے نقب”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Negev”
- Vietnamese: “Negeb”
- Vietnamese: “Negev”
- Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Negev”
- Waray (Philippines): “Negev”
- Welsh: “Negev”
- Western Frisian: “Negev”
- Western Panjabi: “صحرائے نقب”
- Wu Chinese: “内盖夫 (以色列)”
- Wu Chinese: “内盖夫（以色列）”
- Yiddish: “נגב”
- Yue Chinese: “內蓋夫”
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