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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- ^ "Sabkha-Matti-Middle-East". www.saltworkconsultants.com. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
23°50′36.0658″N 52°1′49.7230″E / 23.843351611°N 52.030478611°E
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