Lake Nasser (Arabic: بحيرة ناصرBoħēret Nāṣer, Egyptian Arabic:[boˈħeːɾetˈnɑːsˤeɾ]) is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.[1] Before its creation, the project faced opposition from Sudan as it would encroach on land in the northern part of the country, where many Nubian people lived who would have to be resettled.[2][3] In the end Sudan's land near the area of Lake Nasser was mostly flooded by the lake.[4] The lake has become an important economic resource in Egypt, improving agriculture and touting robust fishing and tourism industries.
Strictly speaking, "Lake Nasser" refers only to the much larger portion of the lake that is in Egyptian territory (83% of the total), with the Sudanese preferring to call their smaller body of water Lake Nubia (Egyptian Arabic: بحيرة النوبةBoħēret Nubeyya, [boˈħeːɾetnʊˈbejjæ]).[5]
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^Sofer, Amon (1999). Rivers of Fire: The Conflict Over Water in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 36. ISBN 9780847685110.
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^Roest, F.C.; Crul, R. C. M. (1995). Current Status of Fisheries and Fish Stocks of the Four Largest African Reservoirs: Kainji, Kariba, Nasser/Nubia and Volta. Food & Agriculture Org. p. 81. ISBN 9789251036839.
LakeNasser (Arabic: بحيرة ناصر Boħēret Nāṣer, Egyptian Arabic: [boˈħeːɾet ˈnɑːsˤeɾ]) is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It is...
evaporation in LakeNasser, the amount of water available for irrigation still increased by 22 km3. Other estimates put evaporation from LakeNasser at between...
Desert of Egypt. Their presence is caused by periodic overflow from LakeNasser. The presence of the depression helped establish the Toshka New Valley...
enters LakeNasser (known in Sudan as Lake Nubia), the larger part of which is in Egypt. Below the Aswan Dam, at the northern limit of LakeNasser, the...
Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is located on the western bank of LakeNasser, about 230 km (140 mi) southwest of Aswan (about 300 km (190 mi) by road)...
will, in fact, increase water flows to Egypt by reducing evaporation on LakeNasser. Ethiopia has accused Egypt of being unreasonable; In October 2019, Egypt...
Ghana, Lake Kariba, on the Zambezi upstream of Cahora Bassa, and Egypt's LakeNasser are bigger in terms of surface water. The Cahora Bassa System started...
(which were moved before the construction of the Aswan Dam to create LakeNasser from the Nile in Egypt), the relocation of the village of Capel Celyn...
industrialization of Egypt. The building of the dam was to result in the creation of LakeNasser, which would submerge the banks of the Nile along its entire 479 km (298 mi)...
understood since most of the archaeological remains are submerged underneath LakeNasser. Frank Yurco also remarked that depictions of pharonic iconography such...
Egypt as LakeNasser, which extends southwards from the dam for 320 km to the border and for an additional 158 km within Sudan. LakeNasser's waters fill...
Cataract (or Great Cataract) was in Nubia and is now submerged under LakeNasser. (21°29′N 30°58′E / 21.48°N 30.97°E / 21.48; 30.97 (Great Cataract))...
would appear on the list: Lake Kariba at 26th, Bratsk Reservoir, Lake Volta, LakeNasser, Manicouagan Reservoir, and Lake Guri. Estuaries and lagoons...
to the building of the Aswan Dam, the island is today submerged under LakeNasser. Prior to the submerging, the Philae temple complex which had been built...
the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and LakeNasser, Egypt. Until the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia...
It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to LakeNasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam). In ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt was known...
between modern Egypt and Sudan at Wadi Halfa Salient, was flooded by LakeNasser in the 1960s and is now permanently underwater. Before this flooding...
stretches. The first is from the Egypt–Sudan border to the southern tip of LakeNasser. The second is the section between the third and fourth cataracts. The...
is the northernmost part of Nubia, roughly contiguous with the modern LakeNasser, which submerged the historical region in the 1960s with the construction...
centralized economy, focused on import substitution under president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954–1970). During the rule of president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (2014–present)...
Europe. The completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970 and the resultant LakeNasser have altered the time-honoured place of the Nile River in the agriculture...
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is a prehistoric cemetery site in the Nile Valley (now submerged in LakeNasser), near the northern border of Sudan with Egypt in Northeast Africa. It...
flood control, improved navigation, and the creation of fisheries in LakeNasser. But it also had environmental and social impacts including resettlement...