Al Jawf
Al Jawf is a town of 31,000 people in Kufra district, southeastern Libya. The city lies in the largest oasis in the Kufra basin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 42,100 residents
- Description: town in Libya
- Also known as: “Al Ğawf”, “Al Jawf, Libya”, “Al-Jof”, and “الكفرة”
Al Jawf
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Al Kufrah, Libya, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.1985° or 24° 11′ 55″ northLongitude
23.2939° or 23° 17′ 38″ eastPopulation
42,100Elevation
391 metres (1,283 feet)IATA airport code
AKFOpen location code
7GP557XV+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 277407893OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Al Jawf” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجوف”
- Arabic: “الكفرة”
- Asturian: “Al Jawf”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Джаўф”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Джаф”
- Belarusian: “Джаўф”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Джауф”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Джаўф”
- Catalan: “Al Jawf”
- Cebuano: “Al Jawf”
- Chinese: “焦夫”
- Dutch: “Al Jawf”
- Esperanto: “Al Ĝaŭf”
- French: “Al Jawf”
- French: “Al-Jaouf”
- French: “El Giof”
- Georgian: “ელ-ჯაუფი”
- German: “Al Jawf”
- German: “al-Dschauf”
- German: “Al-Dschauf”
- Greek: “Αλ Τζαούφ”
- Hebrew: “א־ג’ווף”
- Hebrew: “אל-ג’ווף”
- Hindi: “अल जौफ़, लीबिया”
- Hindi: “अल जौफ़”
- Indonesian: “Al Jawf”
- Indonesian: “El-Giof”
- Italian: “Al-Jawf”
- Italian: “El Giof”
- Italian: “el-Giof”
- Italian: “El-Giof”
- Japanese: “ジャウフ”
- Korean: “알 자우프”
- Korean: “알자우프”
- Lithuanian: “Džaufas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Al-Jawf”
- Malay: “Al Jawf, Libya”
- Malay: “Al Jawf”
- Persian: “الجوف”
- Persian: “جوف”
- Polish: “Al-Dżauf”
- Portuguese: “Al-Jawf”
- Portuguese: “Jaufe”
- Pushto: “الجوف، لیبیا”
- Pushto: “الجوف”
- Russian: “Эль-Джауф”
- Scots: “Al Jawf, Libie”
- Scots: “Al Jawf”
- Serbian: “El Džaf”
- Serbian: “Ал Џаф”
- Serbian: “Ел Џаф”
- Serbian: “الجوف”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Al Jawf”
- South Azerbaijani: “الجوف، لیبی”
- South Azerbaijani: “الجوف”
- Spanish: “Al Jawf”
- Spanish: “Al Yauf”
- Swahili: “Al Jawf”
- Swedish: “Al Jawf”
- Swedish: “Al-Jawf”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Джауф”
- Urdu: “الجوف، لیبیا”
- Urdu: “الجوف”
- Vietnamese: “Al Jawf, Libya”
- Vietnamese: “Al Jawf”
- Volapük: “Cäuf”
- Wu Chinese: “焦夫”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Al Jawf”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.