Wādī Ḥalfā () is a city in the
Northern state of
Sudan on the shores of "Lake Nubia" (the Sudanese section of
Lake Nasser). It is the terminus of a
rail line from
Khartoum and the point where goods are transferred from rail to ferries going down the lake. As of 2007, the city had a population of 15,725. The town is located amidst numerous ancient
Nubian antiquities and was the focus of much archaeological work by teams seeking to save artifacts from the flooding caused by the completion of the
Aswan Dam.