North Africa
Libya
Jabal al Akhdar

Bayda

Bayda is a commercial and industrial city in eastern . It is a base to explore the nearby tourist areas such as the Ancient Greek ruins of Cyrene and Apollonia, and Libyan Desert trips south into Kufra.
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  • Type: City with 310,000 residents
  • Description: city in Libya
  • Also known as: “Al Bayda”, “Az Zāwiyah al Bayḑā’”, “Balis”, “Bayda, Libya”, “Beda”, “El Beida”, “White Monastery”, “Zauia el Beda”, “Zawiat al-Baida”, “Zāwiyat al Bayḑā’”, and “Zāwiyat el-Bēḑā’”

Bayda

Latitude
32.761° or 32° 45′ 39″ north
Longitude
21.7577° or 21° 45′ 28″ east
Population
310,000
Elevation
631 metres (2,070 feet)
IATA airport code
LAQ
United Nations Location Codes
LY ABA and LY LAQ
Open location code
8G43QQ65+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288491858
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
89055
Wiki­data ID
Q35784
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bayda” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Al Bayda”
  • Afrikaans: “Al Bayda”
  • Arabic: “البيضاء”
  • Arabic: “بيضا ليتوريا”
  • Arabic: “بيضاء”
  • Aragonese: “Al Bayda”
  • Armenian: “Էլ Բեյդա”
  • Asturian: “Al Bayda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Al Bayda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Bayda”
  • Basque: “Al Bayda”
  • Basque: “Al-Baida”
  • Basque: “Baida”
  • Belarusian: “Аль-Байда”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Байда”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Бейда”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Бэйда”
  • Bengali: “আল বায়দা”
  • Bengali: “বায়দা”
  • Bislama: “Al Bayda”
  • Bosnian: “Al Bayda”
  • Breton: “Al Bayda”
  • Bulgarian: “Ал Байда”
  • Bulgarian: “Ал-Байда”
  • Catalan: “Al Bayda‘”
  • Catalan: “Al Bayda’”
  • Catalan: “Al Bayda”
  • Catalan: “Al-Baidhah”
  • Catalan: “Al-Bayda”
  • Catalan: “Beida”
  • Catalan: “El-Beda”
  • Cebuano: “Al Bayḑā‘”
  • Cebuano: “Al Bayḑā’”
  • Central Bikol: “Al Bayda”
  • Central Bikol: “Beida”
  • Chinese: “Al Bayda”
  • Chinese: “貝達”
  • Chinese: “贝达”
  • Croatian: “Al Bajda”
  • Croatian: “Beida”
  • Czech: “Al Bayda”
  • Czech: “Al-Bajdá”
  • Czech: “Bajdá”
  • Danish: “Al Bayda”
  • Danish: “Al-Baida”
  • Dutch: “Al Bayda”
  • Dutch: “Beida”
  • Dutch: “El-Beida”
  • Dutch: “Elbeida”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البيضاء”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البيضه”
  • Esperanto: “Al Bajda”
  • Esperanto: “Al Bayda”
  • Estonian: “Al Bayda”
  • Estonian: “Al-Bayḑā’”
  • Estonian: “Al-Bayda”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Al Bayda”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bayda”
  • Finnish: “Al Bayda”
  • Finnish: “Beida”
  • French: “Al Bayda‘”
  • French: “Beda Littoria”
  • French: “El Beïda”
  • Galician: “Al Bayda”
  • Galician: “Baida”
  • Galician: “البيضاء”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ბაიდა”
  • German: “Al Baida”
  • German: “al-Baida”
  • German: “Al-Baida”
  • German: “Baida”
  • Greek: “Αλ Μπάιντα”
  • Greek: “Μπάιντα”
  • Gujarati: “અલ બાયદા”
  • Hebrew: “אל-ביידא”
  • Hebrew: “ביידא”
  • Hindi: “अल बेदा”
  • Hungarian: “Al-Bajda”
  • Indonesian: “Al Bayda‘”
  • Indonesian: “Al Bayda”
  • Indonesian: “Bayda”
  • Indonesian: “El-Bayda”
  • Interlingue: “Al Baida”
  • Irish: “Bayda”
  • Italian: “Al Bayda”
  • Italian: “Al-Bayda”
  • Italian: “Beda Littoria”
  • Italian: “Beida”
  • Japanese: “アルバイダ”
  • Japanese: “ベイダ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bayda”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ಬೇಡಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Аль-Байда”
  • Korean: “바이다”
  • Korean: “베이다”
  • Korean: “알바이다”
  • Korean: “알베이다”
  • Latin: “Albaida”
  • Latvian: “Al Bayḍā”
  • Latvian: “Beida”
  • Lithuanian: “Baida”
  • Lithuanian: “Beida”
  • Lithuanian: “Zavijat al Baida”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Al Bayda”
  • Malay: “Al Baida”
  • Malay: “Al Bayda”
  • Marathi: “अल बैदा”
  • Marathi: “एल्बीडी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Al Bayda”
  • Neapolitan: “Al Bayda‘”
  • Neapolitan: “Al Bayda’”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Bayda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Bayda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bayda”
  • Norwegian: “Al Bayda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bayda”
  • Ossetian: “Аль-Байда”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Байдæ”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Бейда”
  • Persian: “البیضا”
  • Persian: “البیضاء”
  • Persian: “بیضا”
  • Piemontese: “Al Bayda‘”
  • Piemontese: “Al Bayda’”
  • Piemontese: “Albeida”
  • Polish: “Al-Bajda”
  • Portuguese: “Al Bayda‘”
  • Portuguese: “Al Bayda”
  • Portuguese: “Balagrae”
  • Portuguese: “Beida”
  • Romanian: “Al Bayda’, Libia”
  • Romanian: “Al Bayda‘”
  • Romanian: “Bayḑā”
  • Russian: “Бейда”
  • Russian: “Эль-Байда”
  • Sardinian: “Al Bayda”
  • Sardinian: “Beida”
  • Scots: “Al Bayda”
  • Scots: “Bayda, Libie”
  • Serbian: “Ал Баида”
  • Serbian: “Ел Баида”
  • Serbian: “البيضاء”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Baida”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beida”
  • Sicilian: “Bayda”
  • Sicilian: “Beida”
  • Sinhala: “අල බෙදා”
  • Slovak: “Al-Bajdá”
  • Slovenian: “Al Bajda”
  • Slovenian: “Al Bayda”
  • Slovenian: “Beda Littoria”
  • Spanish: “Al Baida”
  • Spanish: “Al Bayda”
  • Spanish: “Az Zawiya Al Bayda”
  • Spanish: “Baida”
  • Swahili: “Al Bayda”
  • Swahili: “Beida”
  • Swedish: “Al Bayḑā‘”
  • Swedish: “Al-Bayda, Libyen”
  • Swedish: “Al-Bayda”
  • Tajik: “Ал Байда”
  • Tamil: “பாய்டா”
  • Telugu: “ఆల్ బేదా”
  • Thai: “อัลไบย์ดา”
  • Turkish: “Al Bayda”
  • Turkish: “El Bayda”
  • Turkish: “El-Beyda, Libya”
  • Turkish: “El-Beyda”
  • Ukrainian: “Аль-Байда”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Бейда”
  • Urdu: “البیضاء، لیبیا”
  • Urdu: “البیضاء”
  • Venetian: “Beida”
  • Vietnamese: “Al Bayda‘”
  • Vietnamese: “Al Bayda”
  • Vietnamese: “AlBayda”
  • Volapük: “Bäyda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Al Bayda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Al-bayda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beida”
  • Welsh: “Al Bayda”
  • Welsh: “Beida”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալ Պայտաա”
  • Wolof: “Al Bayda”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝达”
  • Yiddish: “על בייַדאַ”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿爾貝達”
  • Zeeuws: “Al Bayda”
  • Zulu: “Bayda, Libhiya”
  • “Al Bayda”

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