Bir Tawil

English Etymology en ar بِير طَوِيل or ar بِئْر طَوِيل tall water well. Proper noun 1 en region continent/Africa along the border between Egypt and Sudan, currently considered as terra nullius. It is declared by Egypt to be Sudanese and Sudan to be Egyptian, and claimed by neither country. en Bir Tawil Triangle en Halaib Triangle en 2016-03-03 w:The Guardian Jack Shenker Welcome to the land that no country wants https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil In practice, Bir Tawil is widely believed to have the legal status of terra nullius – “nobody’s land” – and there is nothing else quite like it on the planet. Their ties to the area may be based on traditional rather than written claims – but Bir Tawil is not any more a “no man’s land” than the territory once known as British East Africa, where terra nullius was repeatedly invoked in the early 20th century by both chartered companies and the British government that supported them to justify the appropriation of territory from indigenous people. https://web.archive.org/web/20200406155850/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil See also en terrae nullae Gornja Siga Marie Byrd Land