Shawashina

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Shawashina
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Shawashina
Location in Libya
Coordinates: 29°10′18″N21°17′39″E / 29.17167°N 21.29417°E / 29.17167; 21.29417 Coordinates: 29°10′18″N21°17′39″E / 29.17167°N 21.29417°E / 29.17167; 21.29417
CountryFlag of Libya.svg  Libya
Region Cyrenaica
District Al Wahat
Time zone EET (UTC+2)

Shawashina (Al Shawashina, Ash-Shawashinah) is a desert town in the Al Wahat District in the Cyrenaica region of northeastern Libya. [1]

Al Wahat District District in Libya

Al Wahat, occasionally spelt Al Wahad or Al Wahah is one of the districts of Libya. Its capital and largest city is Ajdabiya. The district is home to much of Libya's petroleum extraction economic activity.

Cyrenaica Place

Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya. Also known as Pentapolis in antiquity, it formed part of the Roman province of Crete and Cyrenaica, later divided into Libya Pentapolis and Libya Sicca. During the Islamic period, the area came to be known as Barqa, after the city of Barca.

Libya Country in north Africa

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over one million of Libya's six million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.

It was in the former Ajdabiya District until 2007.

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References

  1. Maplandia world gazetteer