Shibam District
Shibam District is a district of the Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen. Its capital is the town of Shibam, famous for its mudbrick-made tower houses and known as the "Manhattan of the desert".| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: District with 48,800 residents
- Description: District of Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen
- Also known as: “Shibam”, “Shibām”, and “Shibam district”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shibam and Jaʽʽarah.
Shibam
Photo: Bkar6190, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shibam is in the Hadhramaut region of Yemen. The unique, sixteenth century, mud-built, high rise apartment buildings for which the city is famous constitute a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Jaʽʽarah
Village
Jaʽʽarah is a village in eastern Yemen. It is located in the Hadhramaut Governorate.
Jidfaʽah
Village
Jidfaʽah is a village in eastern Yemen. It is located in the Hadhramaut Governorate.
Shibam District
- Categories: district of Yemen and locality
- Location: Muhafazat Hadramaout, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.8898° or 15° 53′ 23″ northLongitude
48.6534° or 48° 39′ 12″ eastPopulation
48,800Elevation
673 metres (2,208 feet)Open location code
7H7CVMQ3+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 1226934477OpenStreetMap feature
place=districtGeoNames ID
6940744Wikidata ID
Q4117552
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Shibam District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبام”
- Arabic: “مديرية شبام”
- Cebuano: “Shibam (distrito sa Yemen)”
- Cebuano: “Shibam”
- Chinese: “Shibam Koān”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مديريه شبام”
- French: “district de Shibam”
- French: “Shibam”
- German: “Shibam”
- Hebrew: “מחוז שיבאם”
- Maltese: “Distrett ta‘ Shibam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shibam Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shibam-distriktet”
- Persian: “شهرستان شبام”
- Persian: “ناحیه شبام”
- Russian: “Шибам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Shibam, Hadramaut”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Shibam”
- Urdu: “شبام ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Shibam”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Suhayal Jafal and `Alibah.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include عيادة الخطيب لطب الفم والأسنان and Jabal Khibbah.
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