🌊 Serbonian Bog

Egypt · Africa · 31.12°N, 33.12°E

The Serbonian Bog was an area of wetland in a lagoon lying between the eastern Nile Delta, the Isthmus of Suez, Mount Casius, and the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt, with Lake Sirbonis at its center. The lagoon still exists, and is the second-largest in Egypt. The bog is used as a metaphor in English for an inextricable situation.

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Quick facts

Country	Egypt
Continent / region	Africa
Surface elevation	unknown
Coordinates (approx.)	31.12°N, 33.12°E · view on map

Serbonian Bog in Egypt, in Africa. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Great Bitter Lake · Lake Moeris · Lake Manzala · Little Bitter Lake · Lake Timsah · Lake Burullus.

Surface elevation from Wikidata. Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.