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Ajdabiya
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Ajdabiya ( ; ) is a town in and capital of the Al Wahat District in northeastern Libya. It is some south of Benghazi. From 2001 to 2007 it was part of and capital of the Ajdabiya District. The town is divided into three Basic People's Congresses: North Ajdabiya, West Ajdabiya and East Ajdabiya.
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Ajdabiya (إجدابيا) is a human settlement in Libya, serving as the capital of Al Wahat District. The city is situated near the Mediterranean Sea and lies within the Africa/Tripoli time zone. Its elevation above sea level is recorded as 2 meters in some sources, with other measurements indicating 3 or 4 meters.
The population of Ajdabiya is listed as 416,000 in one dataset, while another source cites a figure of 131,773. The settlement is located in the administrative territorial entity of Al Wahat District.
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Place details
- Locality
- إجدابيا
- Region
- الواحات
- Country
- ليبيا
- Population
- 131,773
- Timezone
- Africa/Tripoli
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Ajdabiya
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ajdabiya, Libya - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ajdabiya
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Libya
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Libya
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cyrenaica
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Al Wahat
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 416,000
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- إجدابيا
- Country
- Libya
- Located in
- Al Wahat District
- Population
- 416000
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Capital of
- Al Wahat District
- Image
- Centre of Adjabiya, Libya.jpeg
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- Commons category
- Ajdabiya
- native label
- إجدابيا
- topic's main category
- Category:Ajdabiya
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climate
- History
- Ottomans and the 20th century
- Libyan civil war
- Transport
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Ajdabiya ( ; ) is a town in and capital of the Al Wahat District in northeastern Libya. It is some south of Benghazi. From 2001 to 2007 it was part of and capital of the Ajdabiya District. The town is divided into three Basic People's Congresses: North Ajdabiya, West Ajdabiya and East Ajdabiya.
During the Libyan Civil War, the city changed hands several times between rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces, with the anti-Gaddafi forces finally securing the town in April 2011. As many civilians had fled the fighting, one March 2011 report described the city as a "ghost town."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ajdabiya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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