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What is the name of the vast depression in the Western Desert, the lowest point in the country at approximately 133 metres below sea level, which contains several oases and a distinctive white landscape?
Answer: The Qattara Depression — The Qattara Depression, a roughly triangular basin covering about 19,000 square kilometres with its floor reaching 133 metres below sea level, is the second-lowest point in Africa after Lake Assal and has been the subject of decades of proposals to flood it with seawater for hydroelectric generation.
- A The Fayoum Depression
- B The Wadi el-Natrun
- C The Bahariya Trough
- D The Qattara Depression ✓
The Qattara Depression, a roughly triangular basin covering about 19,000 square kilometres with its floor reaching 133 metres below sea level, is the second-lowest point in Africa after Lake Assal and has been the subject of decades of proposals to flood it with seawater for hydroelectric generation.