Wadi El Natrun
Wadi El Natrun is a valley in Lower Egypt. The valley contains several alkaline lakes, salt deposits, salt marshes and freshwater marshes. The area home to four historic Coptic monasteries still in use.Photo: Lumen roma, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: someone10x, CC BY 2.0.
Wadi El Natrun
- Type: Depression with an elevation of -24 metres
- Description: Desert valley near the Egyptian Nile delta
- Categories: valley, region and landform
- Location: Beheira, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.4379° or 30° 26' 16" northLongitude
30.195° or 30° 11' 42" eastElevation
-24 metres (-79 feet)Open Location Code
8G2GC5QV+4XGeoNames ID
351277Wikidata ID
Q1074945Wadi El Natrun Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: الاسقيط
- Arabic: برية شيهات
- Arabic: برية شيهيت
- Arabic: مدينة وادي النطرون
- Arabic: وادي النطرون
- Arabic: وادي هبيب
- Bulgarian: Уади ел-Натрун
- Bulgarian: Уади ел Натрун
- Burmese: ဝဒီအယ်နတ်ရန်း
- Catalan: Uadi el Natrun
- Cebuano: Wādī an Naţrūn
- Chinese: 纳吞谷
- Czech: Vádí El Natrún
- Czech: Vádí Natrun
- Czech: Vádí an-Natrún
- Dutch: Koptische Woestijn
- Dutch: Nitrie
- Dutch: Nitrische Woestijn
- Dutch: Nitrië
- Dutch: Scetis
- Dutch: Sjieet
- Dutch: Sketes
- Dutch: Wadi Natroen
- Egyptian Arabic: وادى النطرون
- Egyptian Arabic: وادي النطرون
- English: Wādī an Naţrūn
- Esperanto: Sketa dezerto
- Esperanto: Uedo Natrun
- Finnish: Sketis
- Finnish: Wadi El Natrun
- French: Communauté monastique de Scété
- French: Désert de Nitrie
- French: Désert de Scété
- French: Ouadi Natroun
- French: Scété
- French: Vallee de Natron
- French: Vallée de Natron
- German: Skete
- German: Sketis
- German: Sketische Wüste
- German: Wadi Natrun
- German: Wadi an-Natrun
- German: Wadi el-Natrun
- German: Wādī en-Naṭrūn
- Hebrew: ואדי א-נטרון
- Hebrew: ואדי אל-נטרון
- Hungarian: Vádi Natrún
- Indonesian: Wadi El Natrun
- Italian: Deserto di Nitria
- Italian: Nitrea
- Italian: Scetes
- Italian: Sceti
- Italian: Scetis
- Italian: Wadi el-Natrun
- Japanese: スケティス
- Japanese: ワディナトルーン
- Japanese: ワディ・エル・ナトルーン
- Japanese: ワーディー・エル＝ナトルーン
- Japanese: ワーディー・ナトルーン
- Korean: 스케테스
- Korean: 스케티스
- Korean: 와디 엘 나트룬
- Lithuanian: Vadi Natrunas
- Norwegian: Wadi El Natrun
- Norwegian Bokmål: Wadi El Natrun
- Persian: دره ناترون
- Persian: درهٔ ناترون
- Polish: Pustynia Nitryjska
- Polish: Skete
- Polish: Sketes
- Polish: Sketis
- Polish: Wadi El Natrun
- Polish: Wadi an-Natrun
- Portuguese: Deserto da Nítria
- Portuguese: Nítria
- Portuguese: Scetes
- Portuguese: Uádi Natrum
- Portuguese: Wadi El Natrun
- Portuguese: Wadi Natrun
- Russian: Вади-Натрун
- Russian: Вади-эль-Натрун
- Russian: Вади-эн-Натрун
- Russian: Нитрийская пустыня
- Russian: Скитская пустыня
- Slovak: Wádí an-Natrún
- Slovenian: Vadi El Natrun
- Slovenian: Wadi El Natrun
- South Azerbaijani: دره ناترون
- Spanish: Scete
- Spanish: Scetis
- Spanish: Uadi El Natrun
- Spanish: Uadi Natrun
- Spanish: Uadi al-Natrum
- Spanish: Valle del Natrón
- Swedish: Wadi El Natrun
- Turkish: Natrun Vadisi
- Turkish: Vadi Natrun
- Ukrainian: Ваді-Натрун
- Venetian: Wadi el-Natrun
- Zulu: Wadi El Natrun
- Wadi El-Natrun
- Wadi an Natrun
- Wadi el Natrûn
- Wādi en Natrūn
- Wādī an Naṭrūn
In the Area
Wadi El Natrun is situated close to the neighbourhood Wadi Al Natroun City and the town El Natrun Valley.
- Hukir WellVillage, 17 km southeast
- Al AdlVillage, 25 km north
- Ibni Bitak Frist Phase BNeighbourhood, 28 km northwest
- Muhammad Abd al RaqibVillage, 28 km northwest
- Thousand Units HousingNeighbourhood, 28 km northwest
- Al Rouda DistrictNeighbourhood, 28 km east
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. 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 Wadi El Natrun. Photo: someone10x, CC BY 2.0.