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Nubian Desert

area c.400 000 km²/155 000 sq mi. Desert in NE Sudan; a sandstone plateau between the Red Sea and the R Nile; the ancient state of Nubia occupied the area from the First Cataract of the Nile to Khartoum.

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The Nubian Desert, is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, it spans 407, 000 km2 or 157,000 square miles of northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea, at 20.5° N 33° E..

The world's earliest known archaeoastronomical megalith was erected in Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert in southern Egypt.

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