Farafra
Farafra is an oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt about 200 km north-south and 90 km east-west including various satellite oases such as Abu Minqar.Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Farafra
- Type: City with 10,200 residents
- Description: depression in the Western Desert, Egypt
- Categories: oasis, depression and locality
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Western Desert, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.0642° or 27° 3' 51" northLongitude
27.9684° or 27° 58' 6" eastPopulation
10,200Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)Open Location Code
7GV93X79+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2662977098OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
350661Wikidata ID
Q647638Farafra Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Farafra
- Arabic: الفرافرة
- Arabic: واحة الفرافرة
- Armenian: Ֆարաֆրա
- Bengali: ফারাফ্রা, মিশর
- Bulgarian: Фарафра
- Catalan: Farafra
- Cebuano: Qaşr al Farāfirah
- Chinese: 法拉夫拉，埃及
- Danish: Farafra
- Dutch: Farafra
- Dutch: Farafraoase
- Egyptian Arabic: الفرافره
- English: El Farafra Oasis
- English: Farafra, Egypt
- Finnish: Farafra, Egypti
- French: Al-Farafra
- Georgian: ფარაფრა
- German: Farafra
- German: Farāfra
- German: al-Farafra
- Greek: Φαράφρα
- Gujarati: ફારફ્રા, ઇજિપ્ટ
- Hebrew: פראפרה
- Hindi: फराफ्रा, इजिप्ट
- Hungarian: Farafra-oázis
- Hungarian: Faráfra-oázis
- Indonesian: Kalender Ayam
- Italian: Farafra
- Japanese: ファラフラ
- Kannada: ಫರಾಫ್ರಾ, ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್
- Korean: 파라프라 사막
- Latvian: Farafra, Ēģipte
- Lithuanian: Farafra
- Malay: Farafra, Egypt
- Malayalam: ഫറഫ്ര, ഈജിപ്ത്
- Marathi: फराफ्रा, इजिप्त
- Mingrelian: ფარაფრა
- Norwegian: Farafra
- Norwegian Bokmål: Farafra
- Persian: فرافره
- Polish: Al-Farafira
- Portuguese: Oásis de Farafra
- Russian: Фарафра
- Scots: Farafra Oasis
- Scottish Gaelic: Farafra
- Serbian: Бела пустиња
- Sinhala: ෆරෆ්රා ,ඊජිප්තුව
- Spanish: Depresion de Farafra
- Spanish: Depresión de Farafra
- Spanish: Farafra
- Swedish: Farafra
- Tamil: பராபிரா , எகிப்து
- Telugu: ఫరాఫ్రా, ఈజిప్ట్
- Thai: ฟาราฟรา
- Turkish: Farafra Çölü
- Ukrainian: Фарафра
- Urdu: فارافرا ، ایجپٹ
- Vietnamese: Farafra, Ai Cập
- Al Farāfirah
- Qasr Farafra
- Qasr al Farafirah
Other Places Named Farafra
In the Area
Farafra is situated close to the village Al-Lewa Sobeih and the locality White Desert.
- Al Farafra OasisVillage
- White Desert National Park
- Qur Hamra HillVillage, 46 km northwest
- Wadi HennisLocality, 48 km northeast
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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 Farafra. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.