Western Desert
The Western Desert is part of the Sahara Desert and occupies all of Egypt west of the fertile strip of the Nile to the border with Libya. It is utterly barren, except for six oases, described here.
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Western Desert
- Desert
- …is also known as “Aş Şaḩrā’ al Gharbīyah”
- Description: Egyptian part of the Libyan Desert
- Location
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Western Desert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الصحراء الغربية (مصر)”
- Arabic: “الصحراء الغربية”
- Arabic: “الصحرى الغربية”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko basamortua”
- Bulgarian: “Западна пустиня”
- Catalan: “Desert occidental (Egipte)”
- Cebuano: “Western Desert”
- Chinese: “西部沙漠”
- Czech: “Západní poušť”
- Dutch: “Westelijke Woestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الصحرا الغربيه فى مصر”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Dezerto”
- French: “Désert occidental”
- Galician: “Deserto occidental”
- German: “Westliche Wüste”
- Greek: “Δυτική Έρημος”
- Hebrew: “המדבר המערבי”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Barat”
- Italian: “Deserto occidentale”
- Japanese: “西方砂漠”
- Japanese: “西部の砂漠”
- Japanese: “西部砂漠 (エジプト)”
- Japanese: “西部砂漠地帯”
- Korean: “서부 사막”
- Mongolian: “Баруун Цөл”
- Persian: “صحرای غربی (مصر)”
- Persian: “صحرای غربی”
- Portuguese: “Deserto Ocidental”
- Russian: “Западная пустыня”
- Slovak: “Západná púšť”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna puščava”
- Spanish: “Desierto occidental”
- Swedish: “Western Desert”
- Urdu: “مغربی صحرا (مصر)”
- Urdu: “مغربی صحرا”
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