Wadi Halfa
Sudan
Wadi Halfa is Sudan's northernmost gateway town, sitting on the shore of Lake Nubia — the Sudanese portion of the reservoir created by Egypt's Aswan High Dam — and serving as the main crossing point into Egypt. The original town was submerged when the dam was built in the mid-20th century and its residents relocated; the present settlement was rebuilt on the lake's edge. A land border crossing to Aswan, opened in 2014, now supplements the lake ferry route. The area sits within a landscape shaped by successive Nubian, Roman, Christian, and Islamic civilisations.
- Population14,675
- Nearest water from center5.8 km
- Nearest mountain from center9.7 km