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Al Bayda

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Also known as Bayda

city in Libya

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Al Bayda, also known by its native name البيضاء, is a city in Libya. It serves as the capital of the Jabal al Akhdar district and is located within that administrative territorial entity. The city was established in 1840 and covers an area of 155.54 square kilometers.

Situated at an elevation of 623 meters above sea level, Al Bayda has a population of 250,000. It operates in the UTC+02:00 time zone, corresponding to the Africa/Tripoli standard. The city’s license plate code is 2.

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Place details

Locality
البيضاء
Region
الجبل الأخضر
Country
ليبيا
Population
129,439
Timezone
Africa/Tripoli

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Air quality

57US AQIModerate
PM2.5
12.2 µg/m³
PM10
22.1 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 02:00 · Open-Meteo

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Encyclopedic overview

Bayda or Elbeida (Arabic: البيضاء, romanized: al-Bayḍāʾ, pronounced [al.bajˈdˤaːʔ] ), known as Beda Littoria under Italian colonial rule, is a commercial and industrial city in northern Cyrenaica, eastern Libya. With a population of 250,000 people, Bayda is the 4th-largest city in Libya after Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata. It is the capital city of the Jabal al Akhdar district.

Name and history

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al Bayda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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