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The largest city of the Nubian Desert is Port Sudan, at the eastern end of the desert on the Red Sea. Other important cities of the Nubian Desert are Atbara on the river of the same name and Massawa on the Red Sea. The town of Abidiya is on the Nile river. This desert is the only habitat for the critically endangered palm Medemia argun, which ...
Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
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Today, the African plate is moving over Earth's surface at a speed of 32.51 km per million years relative to the Earth's "average" crust velocities (see NNR-MORVEL56) Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded, center) – a triple junction where three plates are pulling ...
The transport of pipe segments for the Great Man-Made River (GMMR) in the Sahara desert, Libya, during the 1980s.A network of pipes that supplies water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a fossil aquifer in the Sahara desert of Libya, the GMMR is the world's largest irrigation project.
Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo [1] or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, [2] 22.51° north, 30.73° east. [3] Today the region is characterized by numerous archaeological sites. [2]
Wadi Halfa has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) typical of the Nubian Desert.Wadi Halfa receives each year the highest mean amount of bright sunshine, with an extreme value of 4,300 h, [3] which is equal to 97–98 % of possible sunshine. [4]
The Nubian Desert has no oases. [1] Flowing through the desert is the Nile Valley, whose alluvial strip of habitable land is no more than two kilometers wide and whose productivity depends on the annual flood. [1] The desert of east Sudan. Sudan's western front encompasses the regions known as Darfur and Kurdufan that comprise 850,000 square ...