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Maʽbar ( ) is a market and farming town in Dhamar Governorate, Yemen, and the seat of Jahran District. It is located about 60 km south of Sanaa, at the northern end of the Dhamar plain, at the intersection of the country's main north–south highway and the old route down to the Yemeni Tihama, which was paved in the 1980s. The pipeline connecting the oilfields in Al Jawf Governorate to Ra's Isa on the Red Sea coast crosses the north–south highway near Maʽbar.

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Locality
معبر
Region
محافظة ذمار
Country
اليمن
Population
0

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Official name
معبر
Country
Yemen
Population
24707
Elevation
1390
Time zone
UTC+03:00
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Maʽbar ( ) is a market and farming town in Dhamar Governorate, Yemen, and the seat of Jahran District. It is located about 60 km south of Sanaa, at the northern end of the Dhamar plain, at the intersection of the country's main north–south highway and the old route down to the Yemeni Tihama, which was paved in the 1980s. The pipeline connecting the oilfields in Al Jawf Governorate to Ra's Isa on the Red Sea coast crosses the north–south highway near Maʽbar.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ma‘bar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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