Bi'r Tawīl
Bi'r Tawīl is one of only two places outside Antarctica that is officially terra nullius, neither belonging to nor claimed by any country. It lies between Egypt and Sudan in a trapezoid shape and has no permanent residents.| Tap on the map to travel |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bi'r Tawīl
- Type: Region
- Description: unclaimed land between Egypt and Sudan
- Neighbors: Egypt and Sudan
- Categories: terra nullius, disputed territory and locality
- Location: Red Sea, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
21.8705° or 21° 52' 14" northLongitude of centre
33.7372° or 33° 44' 14" eastElevation
395 metres (1,296 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 2542289902OpenStreetMap Feature
place=regionGeoNames ID
347412Wikidata ID
Q620634Bi'r Tawīl Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: بئر طويل
- Arabic: بيرطويل
- Arabic: بير طويل
- Arabic: مثلث بارتازوجا
- Armenian: Բիր-Տավիլ
- Asturian: Bir Tawil
- Azerbaijani: Bir Tavil
- Azerbaijani: Neytral zona
- Azerbaijani: Neytral ərazi
- Azerbaijani: Uzun bulaq
- Belarusian: Бір Тавіль
- Bulgarian: Бир Тавил
- Bulgarian: Бир Тауил
- Catalan: Bir Tawil
- Chinese: 比尔泰维勒/比爾泰維勒
- Chinese: 比尔泰维勒
- Chinese: 比爾塔威爾
- Chinese: 比爾泰維勒
- Czech: Bir Tawil
- Czech: Bír Tavíl
- Danish: Bir Tawil
- Dutch: Bir Tawil
- Egyptian Arabic: بير طويل
- English: Bir Tawil
- English: Kingdom of North Sudan
- Esperanto: Bir Taŭil
- Estonian: Bi'r Ţawīl
- Estonian: Bir Tawil
- Finnish: Bir Tawil
- French: Bi'r Tawīl
- French: Bir Tawil
- French: بيرطويل
- Galician: Bir Tawil
- German: Bi'r Tawīl
- German: Bir Tawil
- German: Biʾr Ṭawīl
- Greek: Μπιρ Ταουίλ
- Hebrew: ביר טוויל
- Hebrew: ביר טויל
- Hindi: बीर तवील
- Hungarian: Bi'r Tawīl
- Hungarian: Bir Tawil
- Indonesian: Bir Tawil
- Italian: Bir Tawil
- Japanese: ビル・タウィール
- Japanese: ビル・タウィール帝国
- Korean: 비르 타윌
- Lithuanian: Bir Tavilis
- Macedonian: Бир Тавил
- Malay: Bir Tawil
- Malayalam: ബിർ താവിൽ
- Northern Frisian: Bir Tawil
- Norwegian: Bir Tawil
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bir Tawil
- Occitan (post 1500): Bir Tawil
- Persian: بیر طویل
- Polish: Bir Tawil
- Portuguese: Bi'r Tawīl
- Portuguese: Bir Tawil
- Romanian: Bir Tawil
- Russian: Бир-Тавиль
- Russian: Бир Тавиль
- Russian: треугольник Бир-Тавиль
- Serbian: Бир Тавил
- Spanish: Bir Tawil
- Swedish: Bir Tawil
- Thai: บีรเฏาะวีล
- Turkish: Bir Tavil
- Turkish: Bir Tawil
- Ukrainian: Бір-Тавіль
- Vietnamese: Bir Tawil
- Vlax Romani: Bir Tawil
- Bi'r Tawil
- Bi’r Ţawīl
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Bi'r Tawīl. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.