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    Bir Tawil (Egyptian Arabic: بير طويل, romanized: Bīr Ṭawīl, lit. 'tall water well', [biːɾ tˤɑˈwiːl]) is a 2,060 km2 (795.4 sq mi) area of land along the...
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    Bir Tawil is a landlocked tract of land lying between Egypt and Sudan that, owing to the nature of a border dispute between the two countries, is claimed...
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    are currently three territories sometimes claimed to be terra nullius: Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and the Sudan), four pockets of land near...
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    referred to as Bir Tawil, joins the Halaib Triangle at its westernmost point along the latitude line – neither Sudan nor Egypt claims Bir Tawil. Beja, Arabic...
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    kilometres (114 mi) east of the salient, shifting south so as to leave Bir Tawil in Egypt, and then north-east so as to include the Halaib Triangle within...
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    currently controlled by Egypt. The area (along with the Halaib Triangle and Bir Tawil) is created by two different definitions of the Egypt–Sudan border: the...
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    your peers, and no one living within a hundred miles." Federal enclave Bir Tawil Therriault, Ednor (December 2018). Myths and Legends of Yellowstone. Bowman...
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  • the Tiris Zemmour region of Mauritania Bir Salim, a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict Bir Tawil, a small area along the border between...
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    uninhabitable tracts of land. For instance, some micronations have claimed Bir Tawil in Africa and Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica, lands which are terra...
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    acted as a no man's land between Cyprus and Northern Cyprus since 1974. Bir Tawil Demilitarized zone Exclusion zone Jack's Land Kill zone List of established...
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  • الـزَّرْقَـاء, romanized: Jabal Ḥajar az-Zarqā’) is the highest point in Bir Tawil, an unclaimed area in the Nubian desert between Egypt and Sudan in Northeast...
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    resulting in the Halaib Triangle being claimed by both countries and Bir Tawil being unclaimed by any UN member state. At this latitude the sun is visible...
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    including islands, Mukawwa Island ** Egypt's southernmost point lies in the Bir Tawil region, an area that is commonly included as part of Egypt but is not...
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    070) 10 (4) 0.4 168  Luxembourg 2,586 (998) 2,574 (994) 16 (6) 0.6 – Bir Tawil (terra nullius) 2,060 (795) 2,060 (795) 0 0 169  Mauritius 2,040 (788)...
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  • Directed by  Written by  Original air date  Viewers (millions)  1 1 "Bir Tawil – the land that nobody wants" Paul Kendler Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones...
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    square miles (2,100 km2) - for reference, the unclaimed territory of Bir Tawil has an area of 795 square miles. There is at least one reference in the...
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    de soberanía — N/A  Zanzibar — Zanzibar City  Abyei Area — Abyei Town  Bir Tawil — N/A  Halaib Triangle  Ilemi Triangle  Kafia Kingi  Western Sahara Free...
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    between Sudan and Egypt. It is currently under Egyptian administration. Bir Tawil is a terra nullius occurring on the border between Egypt and Sudan, claimed...
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  • of Matthew Town, Great Inagua Island 20°55′N  Egypt Jebel Bartazuga, Bir Tawil (disputed) border with Sudan 21°44′N 22°00′N  Hong Kong Tau Lo Chau, Soko...
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    Jacobs, Franks (23 July 2010). "396 - "You take it - No, you take it": the Bir Tawil Trapezoid". Big Think. Retrieved 3 June 2021. International Court of Justice...
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  • to claim the land and each country says it belongs to the other. (See Bir Tawil for a similar real-life example of this.) Bullwinkle J. Moose serves as...
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  • autonomous region) (with multicolored coat of arms)  Białobrzegi, Poland  Bir Tawil  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia  Buryatia, Russia...
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    Araucanía and Patagonia Asgardia Empire of Atlantium Empire of Austenasia Bir Tawil Empire Province of Bumbunga Christiania Conch Republic Elgaland-Vargaland...
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    Gangkhar Puensum 7570 m 24,836 ft Drangme Chhu 97 m 318 ft 7473 m 24,518 ft Bir Tawil Gabal Hagar El Zarqa 662 m 2,172 ft [data missing]  Bolivia America Sajama...
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  • remote area of the Nubian Desert involving both the Hala'ib Triangle and Bir Tawil (about midway between the River Nile and the Red Sea) where the long established...
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  • (Egypt)  Egypt 22°0′N 34°0′E / 22.000°N 34.000°E / 22.000; 34.000 (Bir Tawil) Bir Tawil Not claimed by any country 21°46′N 34°0′E / 21.767°N 34.000°E...
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  • Administrative county of England. Jalapa 2,063 Department of Guatemala. Bir Tawil 2,060 Unclaimed land between Egypt and Sudan. Laut Island 2,057 Island...
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    parallel north, offering in exchange renunciation of claims to the smaller Bir Tawil south of the parallel. In Uadi Halfa, the chief town of the 7,950 square...
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    up Masafer Yatta (Mantiqat Shi'b al-Batim, Khirbet Tawil ash-Shih, Khirbet al-Fakhit, Khirbet Bir al-Idd, Khirbet Asafi and Maghayir al-Abeed) had a population...
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  • Administrative county of England. Jalapa 2,063 Department of Guatemala. Bir Tawil 2,060 Unclaimed land between Egypt and Sudan. Laut Island 2,057 Island...
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