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Wadi Halfa Salient | |
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 Map of the claims of both Sudan and Egypt, the Wadi Halfa Salient is the elbow shaped area in the middle, colored in dark green. | |
  Wadi Halfa Salient Location between Egypt and the Sudan | |
| Coordinates: 22°05′31″N 31°24′20″E / 22.09194°N 31.40556°E | |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
The Wadi Halfa Salient, named after Wadi Halfa, a nearby Sudanese city 22 kilometers south of the border, is a salient of the international border between Egypt and the Sudan along the Nile River to the north. The area is 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 "political boundary" set in 1899, and the "administrative boundary" set in 1902.[1]
- ^ Office of Geography. Sudan - Egypt (United Arab Republic) Boundary Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine International Boundary Study #18, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, United States Department of State. (July 27, 1962).