Jayshan District
Jayshan District is a district of the Abyan Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 14,800 inhabitants. The district was controlled by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula until 2022, when STC forces moved into the region of Mudiyah and launched an offensive against AQAP forces defeating them and retaking the district.- District with about 14,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,960 metres (6,430 feet)
- …is also known as “Jayshān”
- Description: District of Abyan Governorate, Yemen
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Latitude
14.1629° or 14° 9′ 46″ north
Longitude
46.1723° or 46° 10′ 20″ east
Open location code
7H68557C+4W
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jayshan District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيشان”
- Arabic: “مديرية جيشان”
- Cebuano: “Jayshan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مديرية جيشان”
- French: “Jayshan”
- German: “Jayshan”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Jayshan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jayshan Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jayshan-distriktet”
- Persian: “شهرستان جیشان”
- Persian: “ناحیه جیشان”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Jayshan, Abyan”
- Thai: “อำเภอญัยชาน”
- Urdu: “جیشان ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Jayshan”
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