Sirwah district
Sirwah District is a district of the Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 19,939 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: District with 19,900 residents
- Description: District of Ma’rib Governorate, Yemen
- Also known as: “Sirwah”, “Şirwāḩ”, and “Sirwah District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sirwah and Almaqah Temple.
Sirwah
Protected area
Photo: Kmatura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sirwah was, after Ma'rib, the most important economical and political center of the Kingdom of Saba at the beginning of the 1st century BC, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Almaqah Temple
Archaeological site
Photo: Kmatura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Almaqah Temple is an archaeological site.
Sirwah district
- Categories: district of Yemen and locality
- Location: Marib Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.451° or 15° 27′ 4″ northLongitude
45.0115° or 45° 0′ 42″ eastPopulation
19,900Elevation
1,489 metres (4,885 feet)Open location code
7H77F226+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1227021257OpenStreetMap feature
place=districtGeoNames ID
6940839Wikidata ID
Q4117559
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Satellite Map
Discover Sirwah district from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sirwah district” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صرواح”
- Arabic: “مديرية صرواح”
- Cebuano: “Sirwah (distrito sa Yemen)”
- Cebuano: “Sirwah”
- Chinese: “Sirwah Koān”
- French: “Sirwah”
- German: “Sirwah”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sirwah Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sirwah-distriktet”
- Persian: “شهرستان صرواح”
- Persian: “ناحیه صرواح”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Sirwah, Ma’rib”
- Urdu: “صرواح ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Sirwah”
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Highlights include jahm and Mustashfa Sirwah ar Rifi.
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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 “Sirwah district”. Photo: JamesA, CC BY-SA 3.0.