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The Great Sand Sea is a desert in the Sahara between western Egypt and eastern Libya in North Africa, 74% of the area is covered by sand dunes. The Great Sand Sea stretches about 650 km (400 mi) from north to south and 300 km (190 mi) from east to west.
Egypt's location. The geography of Egypt relates to two regions: North Africa and West. Egypt has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile, and the Red Sea.Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle).
Bahariya Oasis (Arabic: الواحات البحرية, romanized: El-Wāḥāt El-Baḥrīya, "the Northern Oases") is a depression and a naturally rich oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is approximately 370 km away from Cairo.
The depression is part of the Western Desert of Egypt. The Qattara Depression lies below sea level, and its bottom is covered with salt pans, sand dunes, and salt marshes. The depression extends between the latitudes of 28°35' and 30°25' north and the longitudes of 26°20' and 29°02' east. [3]
Articles relating to the Western Desert, an area of the Sahara that lies west of the river Nile, up to the Libyan border, and south from the Mediterranean Sea to the border with Sudan. It is named in contrast to the Eastern Desert which extends east from the Nile to the Red Sea.
1.5.6 Red Sea and Eastern Desert. ... Siwa Oasis fortification, Western desert of Egypt [12] Excavated room inside the fort of Qasr Allam, Libyan desert, Egypt.
A regular bus service connects the oasis to the other Western oases and to the rest of Egypt. In 1907, the narrow gauge Western Oasis Lines provided twice-weekly train services. A standard gauge railway line Kharga → Qena (Nile Valley) → Port Safaga (Red Sea) has been in service since 1996, but has been decommissioned soon after.
In South Western Part of Egypt. ... Salt water Lake in North shore of River Nile Delta, Western corner in Kafr el-Sheikh ... Siwa Oasis in Western Desert. References