Khalaqah

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.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hajar Saʽid and 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 2½ km east of Khalaqah.

Shibam Kawkaban

Town

Photo: yeowatzup, CC BY 2.0.

Shibam Kawkaban is a double town in Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, located 38 km west-northwest of Sanaa, the national capital. Shibam Kawkaban is situated 3½ km west of Khalaqah.

Kawkaban

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Kawkaban is a small village to the west of Sana'a in the Yemeni Mountains.

Khalaqah

Type: Village with 4,240 residents
Description: place in San‘a’, Yemen
Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Hamdan District, Sanaa Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

15.50208° or 15° 30′ 8″ north

Longitude

43.93413° or 43° 56′ 3″ east

Population

4,240

Elevation

2,562 metres (8,406 feet)

Open location code

7H75GW2M+RJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1226375782

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

402599

Wikidata ID

Q6399267

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Khalaqah” goes by many names.

Arabic: “خلقة”
Dutch: “Khalaqah”
Egyptian Arabic: “خلقه”
French: “Khalaqah”
German: “Khalaqah”
Irish: “Khalaqah”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khalaqah”

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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 “Khalaqah”. Photo: JamesA, CC BY-SA 3.0.