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Saada Governorate

Saada or Sa'dah is one of the governorates of Yemen. The governorate's seat and the largest city is . It is the epicentre of Zaydism and where the Houthi group originates from.
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  • Type: State with 695,000 residents
  • Description: governorate of Yemen
  • Also known as: “Liwa di Şa‘dah”, “Liwa di Sa`dah”, “Liwa of Saada”, “Liwa‘ el-Qiblah”, “Liwā’ el-Qiblah”, “Liwa’ esh-Sham”, “Liwā’ esh-Shām”, “Liwā’ Şi‘dah”, “Liwa‘ Si`dah”, “Muhafazat Sa`dah”, “Province of Şa‘dah”, “Province of Sa`dah”, “Şa‘dah”, “Sa’dah Governorate”, “Sa`dah”, and “سراة خولان”
  • Neighbors:

Saada Governorate

Latitude
17.0634° or 17° 3′ 48″ north
Longitude
43.9149° or 43° 54′ 54″ east
Population
695,000
Elevation
1,930 metres (6,332 feet)
Open location code
7H953W77+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 663081625
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
71333
Wiki­data ID
Q275732
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Saada Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “صعدة”
  • Arabic: “محافظة صعدة”
  • Basque: “Sa’dah gobernantzia”
  • Belarusian: “Саада”
  • Bengali: “সা’দাহ গভর্নরেট”
  • Bengali: “সাঁদা গভর্নোরেট”
  • Bulgarian: “Саада”
  • Catalan: “Governació de Sa’dah”
  • Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at Şa‘dah”
  • Chinese: “Sa’dah Séng”
  • Chinese: “萨达省”
  • Chinese: “薩達省”
  • Croatian: “Sa’da”
  • Croatian: “Sada”
  • Czech: “Provincie Sa’ada”
  • Czech: “provincie Sa’da”
  • Czech: “Sa’ada”
  • Danish: “Saada Governorate”
  • Dutch: “Sa’dah”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Sa’da”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Sada”
  • Esperanto: “Sa’da”
  • Esperanto: “Sada”
  • Finnish: “Saada”
  • French: “Gouvernorat de Sa’dah”
  • French: “Gouvernorat de Saada”
  • French: “Sa’dah”
  • Georgian: “საადა”
  • Georgian: “საადის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “Gouvernement Saʿda”
  • German: “Saada”
  • German: “Saʿda”
  • German: “YE-SD”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο Σάαντα”
  • Greek: “Σάαντα”
  • Gujarati: “સાદા ગવર્નોરેટ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז סעדה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז צעדה”
  • Hebrew: “סעדה”
  • Hebrew: “צעדה”
  • Hindi: “सआदाह प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “साडा गवर्नरेट”
  • Hungarian: “Szaada kormányzóság”
  • Hungarian: “Szaada”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Saada”
  • Italian: “governatorato di Sa’da”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Sa’da”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Sa’dah”
  • Japanese: “サーダ (イエメンの州)”
  • Japanese: “サアダ県”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಡ ಗವರ್ನರ್”
  • Korean: “사다주”
  • Latvian: “Saadas muhāfaza”
  • Lithuanian: “Saados gubernija”
  • Malay: “Kegabenoran Saada”
  • Marathi: “सादा गव्हर्नोरेट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sa’dah Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sa’dah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saada guvernement”
  • Norwegian: “Sa’dah”
  • Persian: “استان صعده”
  • Persian: “صعده”
  • Polish: “Sada”
  • Portuguese: “Sa’dah”
  • Portuguese: “Sadá”
  • Portuguese: “Sadah”
  • Romanian: “Guvernoratul Sa’dah”
  • Russian: “Саада”
  • Scots: “Sa’dah Govrenorate”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sada”
  • Sinhala: “සාදා පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “guvernat Sada”
  • Slovenian: “Guvernat Sada”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صعده اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Gobernacion de Sa’dah”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Sa’dah”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Sadah”
  • Swedish: “Sada”
  • Swedish: “Sadah”
  • Tamil: “சாதா கோவெர்னோரேட்”
  • Telugu: “సాదా గవర్నరేట్”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการเศาะอ์ดะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Saada ili”
  • Turkish: “Saada”
  • Ukrainian: “Саада”
  • Urdu: “سادہ گوورنوراتے”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ صعدہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Saada”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨达省”

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