Wadi Halfa

[ wah-dee hahl-fuh ]
/ ˈwɑ di ˈhɑl fə /

noun

a former town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: now under the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in S Egypt.

Example sentences from the Web for wadi halfa

  • The Egyptian frontier had been set back as far north as Wadi-Halfa.

    My Memoirs |Marguerite Steinheil

British Dictionary definitions for wadi halfa

Wadi Halfa
/ (ˈwɒdɪ ˈhælfə) /

noun

a town in the N Sudan that was partly submerged by Lake Nasser: an important archaeological site