Egypt–Sudan border

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The Egypt–Sudan border is the international boundary separating Egypt and Sudan in northeastern Africa, running largely through desert regions and intersecting the Nile and Lake Nasser.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Egypt–Sudan border canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf international border
political boundary
adjacentCountryCapital Cairo
Khartoum
administeredDeFactoBy Egypt (Hala'ib Triangle)
borderDisputeType territorial dispute
borderFeature desert frontier
largely straight-line segments
borderType land border
claimedBy Sudan
surface form: Sudan (Hala'ib Triangle)
colonialPowerInvolved United Kingdom
continent Africa
country1 Egypt
country2 Sudan
crosses Lake Nasser
Nile
crossesGovernorate Aswan Governorate
crossesState Northern State, Sudan
surface form: Northern State (Sudan)

Red Sea state
surface form: Red Sea State (Sudan)
disputeBetween Egypt
Sudan
establishedBy Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreement of 1899
surface form: Anglo-Egyptian agreements
establishedDuring Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
surface form: Anglo-Egyptian Condominium period
hasCheckpoint Argeen border crossing
Qustul border crossing
hasDisputedSection Bir Tawil area
Hala'ib Triangle
hasSegmentDefinedInYear 1899
1902
hasWaterBoundarySection Lake Nasser
lengthApproxKm 1276
locatedInRegion Northeast Africa
surface form: Northeastern Africa
meetsAtPoint Red Sea coast
tripoint with Libya (approximate)
partOf borders of Egypt
borders of Sudan
passesThrough Eastern Sahara
Nubian Desert
relatedTerritory Bir Tawil
Hala'ib Triangle
securityIssue irregular migration
smuggling
separates Egypt
Sudan
unclaimedArea Bir Tawil
usedFor cross-border trade
migration control

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lake Nasser borderCrosses Egypt–Sudan border
El-Alaki locatedInOrNear Egypt–Sudan border
Halaib locatedNear Egypt–Sudan border