Shibam Kawkaban
Shibam Kawkaban is a double town in Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, located 38 km west-northwest of Sanaa, the national capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 7,460 residents
- Description: city in Al Mahwit Governorate - Yemen
- Also known as: “Shibām”, “Shibam Kaukaban”, and “Shibam-Kawkaban”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kawkaban and Khalaqah.
Kawkaban
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kawkaban is a small village to the west of Sana'a in the Yemeni Mountains.
Khalaqah
Village
Khalaqah is a village and corresponding 'uzlah in Hamdan District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. The 10th-century writer al-Hamdani mentioned it in his Sifat Jazirat al-Arab, but it is absent from most other medieval and early modern historical sources. Khalaqah is situated 3½ km east of Shibam Kawkaban.
Hajar Saʽid
Village
Hajar Saʽid is a small village in Hamdan District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. It is located by the road from Sanaa to Shibam Kawkaban. Hajar Saʽid is situated 6 km east of Shibam Kawkaban.
Shibam Kawkaban
- Categories: historic city and locality
- Location: Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
15.50916° or 15° 30′ 33″ northLongitude
43.90443° or 43° 54′ 16″ eastPopulation
7,460Elevation
2,587 metres (8,488 feet)Open location code
7H75GW53+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 704297322OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
70677Wikidata ID
Q1570798
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Thai—“Shibam Kawkaban” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبام كوكبان”
- Arabic: “شبام”
- Catalan: “Xibam-Kawkaban”
- Dutch: “Schibam Kaukaban”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شبام كوكبان”
- French: “Chibam”
- French: “Shibam”
- German: “Schibam Kaukaban”
- Hebrew: “שבאם”
- Indonesian: “Shibam Kawkaban”
- Portuguese: “Shibam Akyan”
- Portuguese: “Shibam Himyar”
- Portuguese: “Shibam Kawkaban”
- Spanish: “Shibam Kawkaban”
- Thai: “ชิบามเกากะบาน”
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