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Wawa, Sudan

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Place in Northern, Sudan
Wawa واوا
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Coordinates: 20°26′N 30°21′E / 20.433°N 30.350°E / 20.433; 30.350
Country Sudan
StateNorthern

Wawa (Arabic: واوا) is a town in northern Sudan near the Nile River, located at 20°26′N 30°21′E.

The town sits directly across the Nile River from the ancient city of Soleb

Pebble tools from the early Stone Age have been found in this area including an early hand axe dating roughly 1.5 million to 200,000 years ago

References

  1. Berry, L., and A. J. Whiteman. “The Nile in the Sudan.” The Geographical Journal, vol. 134, no. 1, 1968, pp. 1–33. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1792135. Accessed 23 Dec. 2020.

20°26′N 30°21′E / 20.433°N 30.350°E / 20.433; 30.350


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