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Saada
Sign in to saveSaada (), located in the northwest of Yemen, is the capital and largest city of the governorate bearing the same name, as well as the administrative seat of the eponymous district. The city lies in the Serat (Sarawat) mountains at an altitude of approximately 1,800 meters. As of 2004, it was the tenth-largest city in Yemen, with an estimated population of 51,870.
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Saada is a city and human settlement in Yemen, serving as the capital of Saada Governorate. It is located at coordinates 16.94, 43.759166666666665 with an elevation of 1800 meters above sea level. The official name of the city is صعدة.
The settlement has a population of 70,203 and is situated in the UTC+03:00 time zone. It holds the heritage designation of a Tentative World Heritage Site and is described by the source Pauly–Wissowa. A nearby location named Bāb as Salām in the same administrative area has a population of 212 and an elevation of 1876 meters.
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Place details
- Locality
- صعدة
- Region
- محافظة صعدة
- Country
- اليمن
- Population
- 51,870
- Timezone
- Asia/Aden
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Saada
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sa'dah 02.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Yemen
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Yemen
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Saada
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Saada
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2004
- Settlement.population_total
- 51,870
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- Yemen Standard Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1836
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- صعدة
- Country
- Yemen
- Located in
- Saada Governorate
- Population
- 70203
- Elevation
- 1800
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Saada Governorate
- Image
- Sa'dah 02.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sa'dah
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- P12749
- Eddie Cochran
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding and Middle Ages
- North Yemeni independence and Yemeni unification
- Houthi insurgency, Yemeni revolution, and Yemeni civil war
- Environment
- Geography
- Climate
- Fauna
- Demographics
- Transportation
- Culture
- Jews in Saada
- Gallery
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Saada (), located in the northwest of Yemen, is the capital and largest city of the governorate bearing the same name, as well as the administrative seat of the eponymous district. The city lies in the Serat (Sarawat) mountains at an altitude of approximately 1,800 meters. As of 2004, it was the tenth-largest city in Yemen, with an estimated population of 51,870.
The map of Yemen has included Saada since the reign of the Ma'in Kingdom, the earliest known kingdom in Yemen's history.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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