Jabal Kawkaban
Jabal Kawkaban is a peak in Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate and has an elevation of 2,923 metres. Jabal Kawkaban is situated nearby to the hamlet Bayt ash Shawir, as well as near the town Shibam Kawkaban.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,923 metres
- Description: mountain in Shibam Kawkaban District, Yemen
- Also known as: “Jabal Kawkabān”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kawkaban and Shibam Kawkaban.
Kawkaban
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kawkaban is a small village to the west of Sana'a in the Yemeni Mountains.
Shibam Kawkaban
Town
Khalaqah
Village
Khalaqah is a village and corresponding 'uzlah in Hamdan District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. The 10th-century writer al-Hamdani mentioned it in his Sifat Jazirat al-Arab, but it is absent from most other medieval and early modern historical sources.
Jabal Kawkaban
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
15.49826° or 15° 29′ 54″ northLongitude
43.90405° or 43° 54′ 15″ eastElevation
2,923 metres (9,590 feet)Open location code
7H75FWX3+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1226375783OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“Jabal Kawkaban” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل كوكبان”
- Cebuano: “Jabal Kawkabān”
- Dutch: “Jabal Kawkabān”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كوكبان”
- French: “Jabal Kawkaban”
- German: “Jabal Kawkaban”
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