Whale Valley
Wādī al-Ḥītān is a paleontological site in the Faiyum Governorate of Egypt, some 150 kilometres south-west of Cairo. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti.
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- …lies at an elevation of around 150 metres (500 feet)
- …is also known as “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Description: paleontological site in the Faiyum Governorate of Egypt
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Latitude
29.2738° or 29° 16′ 26″ north
Longitude
30.0328° or 30° 1′ 58″ east
Open location code
7GXG72FM+G4
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Whale Valley” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محمية وادي الحيتان”
- Arabic: “وادي الحيتان”
- Asturian: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Hitan vadisi”
- Azerbaijani: “Hitan vadisi”
- Basque: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Belarusian: “Вадзі-аль-Хітан”
- Bulgarian: “Долината на китовете”
- Bulgarian: “Уади ал Хитан”
- Catalan: “Jaciment de Wadi al-Hitan”
- Catalan: “Vall de les Balenes”
- Catalan: “Wadi al-Hitan”
- Cebuano: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Chinese: “鯨魚谷”
- Chinese: “鲸鱼峡谷”
- Chinese: “鲸鱼谷”
- Croatian: “Dolina kitova”
- Croatian: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Czech: “Al-Hitan”
- Danish: “Wadi Al-Hitan Whale dalen”
- Danish: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Dutch: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادى الحيتان”
- Finnish: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- French: “Ouadi Al-Hitan”
- French: “Vallée des baleines”
- French: “Wadi al-hitan”
- Galician: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Georgian: “ვადი ალ ხიტანი”
- German: “Tal der Wale”
- German: “Wadi al-Hitan”
- German: “Wadi Hitan”
- German: “Wadi Zeuglodon”
- German: “Walfischtal”
- Greek: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα των Φαλαινών”
- Greek: “Ουάντι Αλ Χιτάν”
- Hausa: “Wadi al Hitan”
- Hebrew: “ואדי אל חיתאן”
- Hindi: “वादी अल-हितान”
- Hungarian: “Vádi al-Hitan”
- Italian: “Valle delle balene”
- Italian: “Wadi al-Hitan”
- Japanese: “クジラ渓谷”
- Japanese: “ワディ・アル・ヒタン”
- Lithuanian: “Banginių slėnis”
- Lithuanian: “Vadi al Hitanas”
- Malayalam: “വാദി അൽ ഹിതാൻ”
- Maltese: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Nepali: “वादी अल-हितान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Norwegian: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Persian: “وادی الحیتان”
- Polish: “Dolina Wielorybów”
- Polish: “Wadi al-Hitan”
- Portuguese: “Uádi Hitã”
- Portuguese: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Russian: “Вади-аль-Хитан”
- Serbian: “Долина китова”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dolina kitova”
- Slovak: “Wádí al-Hítán”
- Spanish: “Valle de las ballenas”
- Spanish: “Wadi Al-Hitan”
- Swedish: “Wadi al-Hitan”
- Tatar: “Вәди-әль-Хитан палеонтологик аланы”
- Telugu: “వాడి అల్-హితాన్”
- Telugu: “వేల్ వ్యాలీ”
- Turkish: “Vadi’l-Hitan”
- Ukrainian: “Ваді-аль-Хітан”
- Uzbek: “Vodiy al-Kiton”
- Vietnamese: “Wadi El Hitan”
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