Al Jawf Governorate
Al Jawf is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Hazm. As of April 2020, after the Houthi forces' 2020 offensive, nearly all the governorate is under Houthi control, except for Khabb wa ash Sha'af which is under the control of Al-Qaeda.- Type: State with 444,000 residents
- Description: governorate of Yemen
- Also known as: “Al Hazm”, “Al Jawf”, “al-Dschauf”, “Al-Ĝauf”, “Al-Jawf Governorate”, “Al-Jawf Province”, “Aljauf”, “Gobernacion de Al Jawf”, “Gobernación de Al Jawf”, “Gobernacion de Al Yawf”, “Gobernación de Al Yawf”, “Gobernacion de Yauf”, “Governatorato di Al Jawf”, “Jawf”, “Muhafazat al Jawf”, “Muhafazat Al Jawf”, “Muḥāfaẓat al-Jawf”, “Provinco Al Ĝauf”, “Qada‘ al Jawf”, “Qaḑā’ al Jawf”, “YE-Ja”, “YE-JA”, “Ал Джауф”, “ელ-ჯაუფი”, “אל ג’וף”, “אלג’וף”, “ג’וף”, “גוף”, “جوف”, and “अल जौफ गवर्नरेट”
Al Jawf Governorate
- Categories: governorate of Yemen and locality
- Location: Yemen, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
16.6897° or 16° 41′ 23″ north
Longitude
45.6116° or 45° 36′ 42″ east
Population
444,000
Elevation
1,131 metres (3,711 feet)
Open location code
7H87MJQ6+VJ
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Al Jawf Governorate” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አል ጃውፍ”
- Arabic: “محافظة الجوف”
- Azerbaijani: “Al Cavf”
- Basque: “Al Jawf gobernantzia”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Джауф”
- Bengali: “আল জাওয়াফ গভর্নরেট”
- Bengali: “আল জাওয়াফ গভর্নোরেট”
- Bulgarian: “Джауф”
- Catalan: “Governació d’Al Jawf”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at al Jawf”
- Chinese: “焦夫省”
- Croatian: “Al Jawf”
- Croatian: “Al-Džauf”
- Czech: “provincie al-Džauf”
- Danish: “Al Jawf Governorate”
- Dutch: “Al Jawf”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Al Ĝaŭf”
- Finnish: “Al Jawf”
- French: “Al Jawf”
- Georgian: “ელ-ჯაუფის მუჰაფაზა”
- German: “Gouvernement al-Dschauf”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Αλ Ζάουφ”
- Gujarati: “અલ જૌફ ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hausa: “Al Jawf”
- Hebrew: “אל-ג’וף”
- Hindi: “अल-जौफ़ प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Dzsauf kormányzóság”
- Hungarian: “El-Dzsauf”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Al-Jawf”
- Italian: “governatorato di al-Jawf”
- Italian: “Governatorato di al-Jawf”
- Japanese: “ジャウフ県”
- Javanese: “Al Jawf”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ಜಾವ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Жаўф”
- Kirghiz: “Әл-Жаўф”
- Korean: “자우프주”
- Latvian: “Džaufas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Al Džafo gubernija”
- Malay: “Al Jawf Governorate”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Al Jawf”
- Marathi: “अल जौफ गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Al Jawf Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Jawf”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Jawf guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Al Jawf”
- Oromo: “Al Jawf”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਜਾਊਫ”
- Persian: “استان جوف”
- Polish: “Al-Dżauf”
- Portuguese: “Al Jawf”
- Portuguese: “Jaufe”
- Pushto: “الجوف”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Al Jawf”
- Russian: “Эль-Джауф”
- Scots: “Al Jawf Govrenorate”
- Serbian: “Ел Џауф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Al Džauf”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Džauf”
- Sinhala: “අල් ජෝෆ් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “guvernat Al Džauf”
- Somali: “Al Jawf”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Yauf”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Al Jawf”
- Swedish: “al-Jawf”
- Swedish: “Al-Jawf”
- Tajik: “Әл-Жаўф”
- Tamil: “அல் ஜாவ்ப் கோவெர்னோரே”
- Tatar: “Әл-Жаўф”
- Telugu: “అల్ జాాఫ్ గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการอัลเญาฟ์”
- Turkish: “El Cavf ili”
- Turkish: “El-Cevf”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Джауф”
- Urdu: “محافظہ الجوف”
- Uzbek: “Al Jawf”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Al Jawf”
- Wu Chinese: “焦夫省 (也门)”
- Wu Chinese: “焦夫省（也门）”
- Wu Chinese: “焦夫省”
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