Yemeni Mountains
Muhafazat Hadramaout
Shibam District

Shibam

Shibam is in the Hadhramaut region of . The unique, sixteenth century, mud-built, high rise apartment buildings for which the city is famous constitute a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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  • Type: Town with 13,100 residents
  • Description: town in Yemen
  • Also known as: “Old Walled City of Shibam”, “Sibam”, “Šibām”, “the Chicago of the desert”, “the Manhattan of the Middle East”, and “the oldest skyscraper city in the world”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khumayr.

Village
is a village in eastern . It is located in the .

Shibam

Latitude
15.9267° or 15° 55′ 36″ north
Longitude
48.6262° or 48° 37′ 35″ east
Population
13,100
Elevation
683 metres (2,241 feet)
Open location code
7H7CWJGG+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1226934833
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
70676
Wiki­data ID
Q192518
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Shibam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شبام”
  • Arabic: “شيبام”
  • Arabic: “مدينة شبام”
  • Armenian: “Շիբամ”
  • Asturian: “Shibam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şibam”
  • Bashkir: “Шибам”
  • Basque: “Xibam”
  • Belarusian: “Шыбам”
  • Bengali: “শিবাম”
  • Bulgarian: “Шибам”
  • Burmese: “ရှီဘမ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Shibam”
  • Catalan: “Xibam”
  • Cebuano: “Shibām”
  • Chinese: “希巴姆”
  • Croatian: “Shibam”
  • Croatian: “Šibam”
  • Czech: “Šibám”
  • Dagbani: “Shibam”
  • Dutch: “Shibam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شبام”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝibam”
  • Fanti: “Shibam”
  • Farefare: “Shibam”
  • Finnish: “Shibam”
  • Finnish: “Shibām”
  • French: “Chibam”
  • French: “Shibam”
  • Galician: “Shibam”
  • Georgian: “შიბამი”
  • German: “Schibam”
  • German: “Shibam”
  • Hausa: “Shibam Hadramawt”
  • Hebrew: “שיבאם”
  • Hungarian: “Sibám”
  • Indonesian: “Syibam”
  • Italian: “Shibam”
  • Japanese: “シバーム”
  • Japanese: “シバームの旧城壁都市”
  • Kazakh: “Şïbam qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Шибам қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “شىيبام قالاسى”
  • Korean: “시밤”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Shibam”
  • Lithuanian: “Šibamas”
  • Maithili: “शिबम”
  • Maltese: “Shibam”
  • Mongolian: “Шибам”
  • Mossi: “Shibam”
  • Nepali: “शिबम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shibam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shibam”
  • Norwegian: “Shibam”
  • Persian: “شبام”
  • Polish: “Shibam”
  • Polish: “Szibam”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Antiga de Shibam”
  • Portuguese: “Shibam”
  • Portuguese: “Xibã”
  • Romanian: “Shibam”
  • Russian: “Шибам”
  • Serbian: “Шибам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šibam”
  • Slovenian: “Šibam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شبام”
  • Spanish: “Manhattan del desierto”
  • Spanish: “Shibam”
  • Swedish: “Öken-Manhattan”
  • Swedish: “Shibam”
  • Tamil: “சிபாம்”
  • Tatar: “Борынгы Шибам кальга-каласы”
  • Thai: “ชิบาม”
  • Thai: “ชิบามฮัฎเราะเมาต์”
  • Turkish: “Şibam Hadramut”
  • Turkish: “Şibam”
  • Twi: “Shibam na ɛyɛ”
  • Ukrainian: “Шибам”
  • Urdu: “شبام”
  • Vietnamese: “Shibam”

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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 “Shibam”. Photo: Bkar6190, CC BY-SA 4.0.