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Bir Tawil: map and facts
Bir Tawil is in Northern Africa. It has no permanent population. It covers 2,023 km².
Facts
- Population: none permanent
- Area: 2,023 km² (area as drawn on this map)
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): bare ground 100%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plateaus 84.2%, hills 15.8%.
Neighbours
Bir Tawil shares land borders with Egypt and Sudan on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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