Libya–Sudan Border
The Libya–Sudan border is 382 km (237 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Egypt in the north to the tripoint with Chad in the south. Description The border starts in the north at the tripoint with Egypt on Gabal El Uweinat, proceeding south along the 25th meridian east for 223 km (138 mi) down to the 20th parallel north. It then turns west along this parallel for 105 km (65 mi), before turning south at the 24th meridian east, where it turns south, running for 56 km (35 mi) down to the tripoint with Chad. The entire border runs through a remote, scarcely inhabited section of the Sahara desert. History Britain invaded Egypt in 1882, establishing a protectorate over an area that had hitherto being nominally subject to the Ottoman Empire. In the 1890s the British conquered Sudan, and in 1899 a condominium was established which created Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In September 1911 Italy invaded the nominally-Ottoman Vilayet of Tripolitania, and the Treaty of O ...
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