Lahij
Lahij or Lahej, formerly called Al-Hawtah, is a city and an area located between Ta'izz and Aden in Yemen. From the 18th to the 20th century, its rulers were of the Abdali branch of the Al-Sallami tribe who trace their lineage to one of the 10 tribes of Yaffa called Kalad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 25,500 residents
- Description: city in Yemen
- Also known as: “Al Hawtah”, “Al Ḩawţah”, “Lahadj”, “Lahaj”, “Lahej”, and “Lahj”
Lahij
- Category: locality
- Location: Al Houta District, Lahij Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
13.05778° or 13° 3′ 28″ northLongitude
44.88361° or 44° 53′ 1″ eastPopulation
25,500Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)United Nations Location Code
YE LEHOpen location code
7H563V5M+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 6039901085OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Lahij” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحوطة”
- Arabic: “لحج”
- Asturian: “Lahij”
- Azerbaijani: “Lahc”
- Bengali: “লাহিজ”
- Catalan: “Lahej”
- Cebuano: “Laḩij”
- Chinese: “拉赫季”
- Croatian: “Lahidž”
- Croatian: “Lahij”
- Danish: “Lahij”
- Dutch: “Lahij”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لحج”
- Finnish: “Lahij”
- French: “Lahij”
- German: “Lahidsch”
- German: “Lahij”
- Greek: “Λαχίτζ”
- Gujarati: “લાહિજ”
- Hebrew: “אל-חאוטה”
- Hebrew: “לחג‘”
- Hebrew: “לחג’”
- Hindi: “लाहिज”
- Indonesian: “Lahij”
- Italian: “Lahij”
- Japanese: “ラヒジュ”
- Kannada: “ಲಾಹೀಜ್”
- Korean: “라흐치”
- Latvian: “Lehidža”
- Lithuanian: “Al Huta”
- Malay: “Lahij”
- Marathi: “लाहिज”
- Mingrelian: “ლაჰჯი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lahij”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Houta”
- Persian: “لحج”
- Polish: “Lahidż”
- Portuguese: “Lahij”
- Romanian: “Lahij”
- Russian: “Лахдж”
- Russian: “Лахыдж”
- Scots: “Lahij”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lahidž”
- Sinhala: “ලහිජ්”
- Spanish: “Lahej”
- Spanish: “Lahij”
- Swedish: “Lahij”
- Tamil: “லஹிஜ்”
- Telugu: “లాహిజ్”
- Thai: “ละฮิจญ์”
- Turkish: “Lahic”
- Ukrainian: “Лахдж”
- Urdu: “لحج”
- Vietnamese: “Lahij”
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