Meroë
Meroë is an ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in Northern Sudan, approximately 200 km northeast of Khartoum. The site is home to more than 200 Nubian pyramids in three separate groups.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Pyramids of Meroë
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
The Pyramids of Meroë are a large number of Nubian pyramids, encompassing three cemeteries near the ancient city of Meroë.
Meroë
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city along the eastern bank of the Nile River in Northern Sudan
- Categories: ancient city, historical country, historic site, tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: River Nile State, Northern Sudan, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.9381° or 16° 56' 17" northLongitude
33.7481° or 33° 44' 53" eastElevation
364 metres (1,194 feet)Open Location Code
7G8MWPQX+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 2491790685OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
370131Wikidata ID
Q5780Meroë Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Meroë
- Arabic: Meroë
- Arabic: أهرامات مروي
- Arabic: مروي
- Asturian: Meroe
- Avaric: Meroe
- Azerbaijani: Meroe
- Bashkir: Мероэ
- Basque: Meroe
- Belarusian: Мероэ
- Belarusian: Мэраэ
- Breton: Meroe
- Catalan: Meroe
- Catalan: Mèroe
- Chinese: 麥羅埃
- Chinese: 麦罗埃
- Croatian: Meroe
- Czech: Meroe
- Danish: Meroë
- Dutch: Meroe
- Dutch: Meroë
- English: Meroe
- English: meroë
- Esperanto: Meroe
- Finnish: Meroë
- French: Méroé
- Galician: Meroë
- Georgian: მეროე
- German: Meroe
- German: Meroë
- Greek: Μερόη
- Hebrew: מרואה
- Hungarian: Meroé
- Icelandic: Meróe
- Indonesian: Meroë
- Irish: Meroë
- Italian: Meroe
- Italian: Meroë
- Japanese: メロエ
- Korean: 메로에
- Kotava: Meroe
- Latvian: Meroe
- Lithuanian: Merojė
- Lithuanian: Meroė
- Maithili: मेरोइ
- Malagasy: Meroë
- Malay: Meruwi
- Maltese: Meroe
- Maltese: Meroë
- Nepali: मेरोइ
- Norwegian: Meroë
- Norwegian Bokmål: Meroë
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Meroe
- Occitan (post 1500): Meroe
- Persian: مرواه
- Polish: Meroe
- Portuguese: Meroe
- Portuguese: Meroé
- Romanian: Meroë
- Russian: Мероэ
- Scots: Meroë
- Serbian: Meroz
- Serbo-Croatian: Meroe
- Slovenian: Meroë
- Somali: Meroe
- Spanish: Meroe
- Swahili: Meroë
- Swedish: Meroë
- Thai: เมโรวี
- Turkish: Meroe
- Ukrainian: Мерое
- Urdu: مرواہ
- Venetian: Meroe
- Vietnamese: Meroe
- Waray (Philippines): Meroë
- Merowe
Other Places Named Meroë
In the Area
- Hillat ed DarqabVillage, 4 km west
- Hillat QadawHamlet, 4½ km northwest
- Hillat al KihekHamlet, 4½ km west
- Hillat el BigrawiyaHamlet, 6 km southwest
- Hillat el HamadabHamlet, 7 km southwest
- KabushiyahTown, 8 km southwest
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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 Meroë. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.