Yemen
Shabwah Governorate
Arma District

Shabwa

The ancient city of Shabwa was the capital of the Kingdom of Hadhramaut at the South Arabian region of the . The ruins of the city are located in the north of modern of the .
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  • Type: Hamlet with 33 residents
  • Description: ancient city in Yemen; former capital of the Kingdom of Hadramaut
  • Also known as: “Shabuh” and “Shabwah”

Shabwa

Latitude
15.36958° or 15° 22′ 11″ north
Longitude
47.02679° or 47° 1′ 36″ east
Population
33
Elevation
845 metres (2,772 feet)
Open location code
7H79929G+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1226912879
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
70936
Wiki­data ID
Q2005211
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Shabwa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شبوة القديمة”
  • Arabic: “شبوة”
  • Armenian: “Շաբվա”
  • Asturian: “Shabwa”
  • Catalan: “Shabwa”
  • Catalan: “Xabwa”
  • Croatian: “Šabva”
  • Croatian: “Shabwa”
  • Dutch: “Schabwat”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝabua”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝabŭa”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝabva”
  • Finnish: “Šabwa”
  • French: “Chabwa”
  • French: “Hajar Shabwah”
  • French: “Shabwa”
  • German: “Hajar Shabwah”
  • German: “Schabwa”
  • German: “Schabwat”
  • Greek: “Σάμπουα”
  • Persian: “شبوه (شهر)”
  • Persian: “شبوه”
  • Russian: “Шабва”
  • Serbian: “Шабва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šabva”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شبوه (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شبوه”
  • Spanish: “Sabota”
  • Spanish: “Sabwa”
  • Spanish: “Shabwa”
  • Swedish: “Shabwa”
  • Ukrainian: “Шабва”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shabwa”. Photo: BluesyPete, CC BY-SA 3.0.