Sidra
Sidra or Sidr is a port about 23 km west of Ra's Lanuf in Libya. It is Libya's largest oil depot, shipping about 447,000 barrels per day, and during the Cold War gave its name to the 'Gulf of Sidra', an alternative name for the Gulf of Sirte.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Dune
- Description: town in Libya
- Also known as: “Sidra, Libya”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ras Lanuf.
Ras Lanuf
Town
Ras Lanuf is a Mediterranean town in northern Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra in Tripolitania. The town is also home to the Ra's Lanuf Refinery, completed in 1984, with a crude oil refining capacity of 220,000 bbl/d. Ras Lanuf is situated 8 km southeast of Sidra.
Sidra
- Categories: city, port city, and landform
- Location: Sirte District, Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Sidra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميناء السدرة النفطي”
- Arabic: “ميناء السدرة”
- Arabic: “ميناء سدرا النفطي”
- Arabic: “ميناء سدرا”
- Arabic: “ميناء سدرة النفطي”
- Arabic: “ميناء سدرة”
- Asturian: “Sidra”
- Bulgarian: “Ес Сидер”
- Bulgarian: “Сидер”
- Cebuano: “As Sidr”
- Chinese: “錫德拉”
- Dutch: “Sidra”
- French: “As-Sidra”
- French: “Sidra”
- German: “Al Sidr”
- German: “Al Sidra”
- German: “As Sidr”
- German: “As-Sidr”
- German: “Es Sider”
- German: “Es-Sider”
- Italian: “Sidra (Libia)”
- Italian: “Sidra”
- Persian: “سدره”
- Polish: “As-Sidr”
- Polish: “As-Sidra”
- Polish: “Es Sider”
- Russian: “Эс-Сидер”
- Russian: “Эс-Сидр”
- South Azerbaijani: “سدره”
- Swedish: “As Sidr”
- Uzbek: “Sidra”
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