Ubari
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Ubari or Awbari () is an oasis town and the capital of the Wadi al Hayaa District, in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya. It is in the Idehan Ubari, a Libyan section of the Sahara Desert. It was the capital of the former baladiyah (district) called Awbari, in the southwest of the country.
Key facts
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- Ubari
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- Awbari
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- Town
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- Oasis in Lybia.JPG
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- 300px
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- An Ubari oasis lake, with native grasses and date palms.
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- Libya
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- bottom
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- Location in Libya
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- Country
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- Region
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- Fezzan
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- District
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- Wadi al Hayaa
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- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2009
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- 35,000
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- Ethnicities
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
- Libyan civil wars
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Ubari or Awbari () is an oasis town and the capital of the Wadi al Hayaa District, in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya. It is in the Idehan Ubari, a Libyan section of the Sahara Desert. It was the capital of the former baladiyah (district) called Awbari, in the southwest of the country.
==Geography== Ubari is in the Targa valley, lying between the Messak Sattafat plateau and Idhan Ubari erg sand dunes and lakes. Native plants include wetland grasses at the natural spring-fed lakes' shorelines, and the native Saharan date palm (Phoenix dactylifera).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ubari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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