Bir Tawil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A region of Africa, along the border between Egypt and Sudan, currently considered as terra nullius. It is declared by Egypt to be Sudanese and Sudan to be Egyptian, and claimed by neither country.

Word forms

Bir Tawil

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بِير طَوِيل (bīr ṭawīl) or بِئْر طَوِيل (biʔr ṭawīl, literally “tall water well”).

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