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Al Hudaydah
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Hodeidah (), also transliterated as Hodeda, Hodeida, Hudaida or al-Hudaydah, is the fourth-largest city in Yemen and its principal port on the Red Sea and it is the centre of Al Hudaydah Governorate. As of 2023, it had an estimated population of 735,000.
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Al Hudaydah, known natively as الحديدة, is a city in Yemen that serves as the capital of Al Hudaydah Governorate. It is situated at an elevation of 17 meters above sea level and operates in the UTC+03:00 time zone. The city’s official language is Arabic, and its earliest written record dates to 1400.
With a population of 617,871, Al Hudaydah is classified as a big city. It is located within the administrative territorial entity of Al Hudaydah Governorate. The area has been described in sources such as the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Place details
- Region
- محافظة الحديدة
- Country
- اليمن
- Population
- 734,699
- Timezone
- Asia/Aden
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hodeidah
- Settlement.other_name
- Al-Hudaydah
- Settlement.nickname
- Bride of the Red Sea
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.parts_type
- Administration
- Settlement.parts_style
- para
- Settlement.p1
- (de jure) (de facto)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Al Hudaydah Market, Yemen (11042765095).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 275px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Market in Hodeidah
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Yemen
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 280
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Yemen
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Al Hudaydah
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- الحديدة
- Country
- Yemen
- Located in
- Al Hudaydah Governorate
- Official language
- Arabic
- Population
- 617871
- Elevation
- 17
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Al Hudaydah Governorate
- Image
- الحديدة - panoramio.jpg
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- Commons category
- Al Hudaydah
- native label
- الحديدة
- P12749
- Perugia
- time of earliest written record
- 1400-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
Travel guide
Get in
The city is located 225 km from Sana'a and 225 km from Ta'izz, 294 km from Jizan, 14 km from Al-Kathib.
There are regular flights from Sana'a, which take about half an hour. The road from Sana'a is not in good condition.
Sleep
There are very few good hotels in the town. The only real exception is the Hodeidah Land Resort. There are a number of small hotels in the city centre, but they are poor by any international standards.
Go next
Zabid is the most important religious center in Hodeida province. It had the first Islamic University in Yemen. The Great Mosque of Al Asha'ir was founded in the 5th cent AH (11the cent AD). Al Shifra spa with warm mineral waters is located 70 km east of Hodeida.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Economy
- Yemeni civil war
- Topography
- Climate
- See also
- References
- External links
Hodeidah (), also transliterated as Hodeda, Hodeida, Hudaida or al-Hudaydah, is the fourth-largest city in Yemen and its principal port on the Red Sea and it is the centre of Al Hudaydah Governorate. As of 2023, it had an estimated population of 735,000.
==History== In Islamic chronicles, the name Hodeidah was first mentioned in the year 1454/55. The city's importance grew in the 1520s, when the Ottomans took over the Yemeni Tihāmah region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al Hudaydah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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