Dakhla Oasis
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depression in the Western Desert, Egypt
Key facts
- Country
- Egypt
- Governorate
- New Valley Governorate
- Total
- 2,000 km (770 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,500 km (580 sq mi)
- Ethnicities
- Egyptians
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
- Capital
- 'Ain Basil (Balat) (c. 2500 BCE -c. 1500 BCE ), Mut (c. 1500 BCE - )
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Encyclopedic overview
Dakhla Oasis or Dakhleh Oasis (Egyptian Arabic: الواحات الداخلة El Waḥat el Daḵla, pronounced [elwæ'ħæ:t edˈdæ:xlæ], "the inner oases"), is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert. Dakhla Oasis lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) from the Nile and between the oases of Farafra and Kharga. It measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dakhla Oasis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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