Mizda
Mizda or Mesdah is a town in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya. It was the capital of the former Mizda District. Just to the west of Mizda is the Mizda Army Base at The Berber tribe Awlad Abu Say is centered around Mizda and Gharyan to the north.- Type: Town with 16,700 residents
- Description: town in Libya
- Also known as: “Misdah”, “Mizdah”, and “ⵎⵣⴷⴰ”
Mizda
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Jabal al Gharbi District, Libya, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.44949° or 31° 26′ 58″ north
Longitude
12.98214° or 12° 58′ 56″ east
Population
16,700
Elevation
458 metres (1,503 feet)
Open location code
8F3JCXXJ+QV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Mizda from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Mizda” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مزدة”
- Arabic: “مزده”
- Bulgarian: “Миздах”
- Catalan: “Mizda”
- Cebuano: “Mizdah”
- Dutch: “Mizda”
- Dutch: “Mizdah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مزده”
- Esperanto: “Mizda”
- Esperanto: “Mizdah”
- French: “Mizda”
- French: “Mizdah”
- Georgian: “მიზდა”
- German: “Mesda”
- German: “Mizda”
- Irish: “Mizda”
- Italian: “Mizda”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Mizda”
- Persian: “مزده”
- Polish: “Mizda”
- Polish: “Mizdah”
- Portuguese: “Mizda”
- Romanian: “Mizda”
- Romanian: “Mizdah”
- Russian: “Мизда”
- South Azerbaijani: “مزده، لیبی”
- South Azerbaijani: “مزده”
- Spanish: “Mizda”
- Swahili: “Mizda”
- Swedish: “Mizda”
- Turkish: “Mizde”
- Ukrainian: “Мізда”
- Volapük: “Misdä”
- Zulu: “Mizda”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mizda and ⵍⴼⵡⵇⵢⴰ الفوقيا.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include مركز شرطة and بريد مزدة.
Libya: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Tripoli, Benghazi, Bayda, and Misrata.
Curious Villages to Discover
Uncover intriguing villages from every corner of the globe.