Sabkhat Matti

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Sabkhat Matti is a dry lake on the border between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.^[1] "Sabka" means "salt flat" in Arabic. In the 1930s, Bedouins told western surveyors that the salt flats were named after someone named "Matti", who had disappeared while trying to cross them.

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23°50′36.0658″N 52°1′49.7230″E / 23.843351611°N 52.030478611°E / 23.843351611; 52.030478611

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