New Halfa is a city located in the state of Kassala, Sudan, at an altitude of 351 meters (1480 feet), and it is 367 kilometers to the east from the capital, Khartoum. It is considered a modern city that was established in (1963) AD, within the framework of the plan to build the High Dam in Egypt to settle the residents of Wadi Halfa and the neighboring villages that were flooded by the waters of the dam lake, known in Sudan as Lake Nubia.