Sudan
Northern Sudan
Northern State

Wadi Halfa

Wadi Halfa is a town on the shores of Lake Nasser in the north of . It marks the point of entry into Sudan for those coming in from . It is surrounded by the dunes of the Nubian Desert, the eastern edge of the Sahara, and has a population of around 15,000.
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  • Type: City with 15,700 residents
  • Description: city in Northern state, Sudan
  • Also known as: “Wadi Halfa‘”, “Wadi Halfa’”, and “Wādī Ḩalfā’”
  • Address: وادي حلفا

Wadi Halfa

Latitude
21.8005° or 21° 48′ 2″ north
Longitude
31.3507° or 31° 21′ 3″ east
Population
15,700
Elevation
184 metres (604 feet)
IATA airport code
WHF
United Nations Location Code
SD WHF
Open location code
7GHHR922+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 100013911
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
364132
Wiki­data ID
Q740865
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Wadi Halfa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حلفا”
  • Arabic: “وادى حلفا”
  • Arabic: “وادي حلفا”
  • Arabic: “وادي حلفاء”
  • Asturian: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Basque: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Bengali: “বাদি হালফা”
  • Catalan: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Chinese: “瓦迪哈勒法”
  • Czech: “Vádí Halfa”
  • Danish: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Dutch: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وادى حلفا”
  • Esperanto: “Ŭadi Halfa”
  • Estonian: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Estonian: “Wādī Ḩalfā”
  • Estonian: “Wādī Ḥalfā”
  • Finnish: “Wadi Halfa”
  • French: “Wadi Halfa”
  • German: “Wadi Halfa”
  • German: “Wādī Ḥalfā”
  • Greek: “Βάντι Χάλφα”
  • Gujarati: “વાડી હલ્ફા”
  • Hebrew: “ואדי חאלפה”
  • Hebrew: “ואדי חלפא”
  • Hindi: “वाडी हल्फा”
  • Hungarian: “Vádi-Halfa”
  • Indonesian: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Italian: “Uadi Halfa”
  • Italian: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Japanese: “ワジ・ハルファ”
  • Japanese: “ワジハルファ”
  • Japanese: “ワディ・ハルファ”
  • Japanese: “ワディハルファ”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಡಿ ಹಲ್ಫ್ಫ”
  • Korean: “와디할파”
  • Latvian: “Vadi Halfa”
  • Lithuanian: “Vadi Halfa”
  • Malay: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Marathi: “वाडी हल्फा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Persian: “وادی حلفا”
  • Polish: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Portuguese: “Uádi Halfa”
  • Portuguese: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Romanian: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Russian: “Вади Хальфа”
  • Russian: “Вади-Хальфа”
  • Serbian: “Вади Халфа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vadi Halfa”
  • Sinhala: “වාඩි හල්ෆා”
  • Slovenian: “Vadi Halfa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وادی حلفا”
  • Spanish: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Swahili: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Swedish: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Tamil: “வாடி ஹாலிபா”
  • Tamil: “வாதீ ஹல்பா”
  • Telugu: “వాడి హల్ఫా”
  • Thai: “วาดีฮาฟา”
  • Turkish: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваді-Хальфа”
  • Urdu: “وادی حالفا”
  • Vietnamese: “Wadi Halfa”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦迪哈勒法”
  • Zulu: “Wadi Halfa”

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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 “Wadi Halfa”. Photo: Bertramz, CC BY 3.0.