- a light, knitted woolen head scarf for women.
- a region in southern Egypt and the Sudan, north of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- an ancient state in Nubia, 2000 b.c.–a.d. 1400.
- Lake Nassar.
- an ancient region of NE Africa, on the Nile, extending from Aswan to Khartoum