Western Desert
The Western Desert is part of the Sahara Desert and occupies all of Egypt west of the fertile strip of the Nile to the border with Libya. It is utterly barren, except for five oases, described here.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Kharga Oasis
The Kharga Oasis lit. 'the outer'; Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁϩ ⲛ̀ϩⲏⲃ wah enhib, "Oasis of Hib", ⲟⲩⲁϩ ⲙ̀ⲯⲟⲓ wah empsoi "Oasis of Psoi") is the southernmost of Egypt's five western oases.
Farafra
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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.
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Gilf Kebir National Park
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Gilf Kebir National Park is in Western Desert of Egypt.
Western Desert
- Type: Desert
- Description: Egyptian part of the Libyan Desert
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
27° northLongitude of centre
28° eastElevation
85 metres (279 feet)GeoNames ID
356684Wikidata ID
Q14314106Western Desert Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: الصحراء الغربية (مصر)
- Arabic: الصحراء الغربية
- Basque: Mendebaldeko basamortua
- Bulgarian: Западна пустиня
- Catalan: Desert occidental (Egipte)
- Chinese: 西部沙漠
- Czech: Západní poušť
- Dutch: Westelijke Woestijn
- Egyptian Arabic: الصحرا الغربيه فى مصر
- Esperanto: Okcidenta Dezerto
- French: Désert occidental
- German: Westliche Wüste
- Hebrew: המדבר המערבי
- Italian: Deserto occidentale
- Japanese: 西方砂漠
- Japanese: 西部の砂漠
- Japanese: 西部砂漠 (エジプト)
- Japanese: 西部砂漠地帯
- Portuguese: Deserto Ocidental
- Russian: Западная пустыня
- Slovak: Západná púšť
- Slovenian: Zahodna puščava
- Spanish: Desierto occidental
- Swedish: Western Desert
- Urdu: مغربی صحرا (مصر)
- Urdu: مغربی صحرا
- Aş Şaḩrā’ al Gharbīyah
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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 Western Desert. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.