Bir Tawil area

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Bir Tawil area is a small, uninhabited tract of land between Egypt and Sudan notable for being one of the few places on Earth claimed by neither country.

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Bir Tawil area canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf terra nullius
territory
uninhabited area
areaSquareKilometres about 2060
associatedBorderAgreement 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreement
1902 administrative boundary adjustment
borderingCountry Egypt
Sudan
capital none
claimedWithMutualExclusionOf Halaib Triangle
linked to: Hala'ib Triangle
climate arid
coastline none
containsFeature Jabal Tawil
Wadi Tawil
continent Africa
country none
currency none
disputedBy Egypt
Sudan
elevation mostly low-lying desert plateau
governingBody none
humanActivity occasional nomadic grazing
ISOCode none
largestSettlement none
legalStatusUnderInternationalLaw unallocated territory between Egypt and Sudan
locatedBetween Egypt
Sudan
locatedInDesert Nubian Desert
nearBorderFeature Egypt–Sudan border
nearestCountryCapital Cairo
Khartoum
notableFor being one of the few places on Earth claimed by neither neighboring country
example of modern terra nullius
officialLanguage none
permanentInfrastructure none
permanentResidents none
permanentWaterSources none
population 0
reasonForTerraNullius conflicting Egypt–Sudan border definitions
region Northeast Africa
sovereigntyClaimedBy none
status landlocked
unclaimed by recognized states
uninhabited
terrain desert
timeZone none officially designated

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