Wadi El Natrun
Wadi El Natrun is a valley in Lower Egypt. The valley contains several alkaline lakes, salt deposits, salt marshes and freshwater marshes. The area home to four historic Coptic monasteries still in use.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Depression with an elevation of -24 metres
- Description: desert valley near the Egyptian Nile delta
- Also known as: “Wadi an Natrun”, “Wādī an Naţrūn”, “Wādī an Naṭrūn”, “Wadi el Natrûn”, and “Wādi en Natrūn”
Wadi El Natrun
- Categories: valley, region, wadi, and landform
- Location: Beheira, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Wadi El Natrun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الاسقيط”
- Arabic: “برية شيهات”
- Arabic: “برية شيهيت”
- Arabic: “مدينة وادي النطرون”
- Arabic: “وادي النطرون”
- Arabic: “وادي هبيب”
- Bulgarian: “Уади ел Натрун”
- Bulgarian: “Уади ел-Натрун”
- Burmese: “ဝဒီအယ်နတ်ရန်း”
- Catalan: “Uadi el Natrun”
- Cebuano: “Wādī an Naţrūn”
- Chinese: “纳吞谷”
- Chinese: “纳特隆谷”
- Czech: “Natrun”
- Czech: “vádí an-Natrún”
- Czech: “vádí El Natrún”
- Czech: “vádí Natrun”
- Czech: “Vádí Natrun”
- Dutch: “Koptische Woestijn”
- Dutch: “Nitrie”
- Dutch: “Nitrië”
- Dutch: “Nitrische Woestijn”
- Dutch: “Scetis”
- Dutch: “Sjieet”
- Dutch: “Sketes”
- Dutch: “Wadi Natroen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادى النطرون”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادي النطرون”
- Esperanto: “Sketa dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Uedo Natrun”
- Finnish: “Sketis”
- Finnish: “Wadi El Natrun”
- French: “Communauté monastique de Scété”
- French: “Désert de Nitrie”
- French: “Désert de Scété”
- French: “Ouadi Natroun”
- French: “Scété”
- French: “Vallee de Natron”
- French: “Vallée de Natron”
- German: “Skete”
- German: “Sketis”
- German: “Sketische Wüste”
- German: “Wadi an-Natrun”
- German: “Wadi el-Natrun”
- German: “Wādī en-Naṭrūn”
- German: “Wadi Natrun”
- Hebrew: “ואדי א-נטרון”
- Hebrew: “ואדי אל-נטרון”
- Hungarian: “Vádi Natrún”
- Indonesian: “Wadi El Natrun”
- Italian: “Deserto di Nitria”
- Italian: “Nitrea”
- Italian: “Scetes”
- Italian: “Sceti”
- Italian: “Scetis”
- Italian: “Wadi El Natrun”
- Italian: “Wadi el-Natrun”
- Japanese: “スケティス”
- Japanese: “ワーディー・エル＝ナトルーン”
- Japanese: “ワーディー・ナトルーン”
- Japanese: “ワディ・エル・ナトルーン”
- Japanese: “ワディナトルーン”
- Korean: “스케테스”
- Korean: “스케티스”
- Korean: “와디 엘 나트룬”
- Lithuanian: “Vadi Natrunas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wadi El Natrun”
- Norwegian: “Wadi El Natrun”
- Persian: “دره ناترون”
- Persian: “درهٔ ناترون”
- Persian: “وادی نطرون”
- Polish: “Pustynia Nitryjska”
- Polish: “Skete”
- Polish: “Sketes”
- Polish: “Sketis”
- Polish: “Wadi an-Natrun”
- Polish: “Wadi El Natrun”
- Portuguese: “Deserto da Nítria”
- Portuguese: “Nítria”
- Portuguese: “Scetes”
- Portuguese: “Uádi Natrum”
- Portuguese: “Wadi El Natrun”
- Portuguese: “Wadi Natrun”
- Romanian: “Scetis”
- Romanian: “Wadi El Natrun (Scetis)”
- Russian: “Вади-Натрун”
- Russian: “Вади-эль-Натрун”
- Russian: “Вади-эн-Натрун”
- Russian: “Нитрийская пустыня”
- Russian: “Скитская пустыня”
- Slovak: “Wádí an-Natrún”
- Slovenian: “Vadi El Natrun”
- Slovenian: “Wadi El Natrun”
- South Azerbaijani: “دره ناترون”
- Spanish: “Scete”
- Spanish: “Scetis”
- Spanish: “Uadi al-Natrum”
- Spanish: “Uadi El Natrun”
- Spanish: “Uadi Natrun”
- Spanish: “Valle del Natrón”
- Swedish: “Wadi El Natrun”
- Turkish: “Natrun Vadisi”
- Turkish: “Vadi Natrun”
- Ukrainian: “Ваді-Натрун”
- Venetian: “Wadi el-Natrun”
- Zulu: “Wadi El Natrun”
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