Shibam
Shibam is in the Hadhramaut region of Yemen. The unique, sixteenth century, mud-built, high rise apartment buildings for which the city is famous constitute a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- Type: Town with 13,100 residents
- Description: town in Yemen
- Also known as: “Cidade Antiga de Shibam”, “Manhattan del desierto”, “Öken-Manhattan”, “Old Walled City of Shibam”, “Sibam”, “Šibām”, “Şibam Hadramut”, “the Chicago of the desert”, “the Manhattan of the Middle East”, “the oldest skyscraper city in the world”, “شيبام”, “مدينة شبام”, “ชิบาม”, and “シバームの旧城壁都市”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khumayr.
Shibam
- Categories: city, urban area, and locality
- Location: Shibam District, Muhafazat Hadramaout, Yemeni Mountains, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Shibam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبام”
- Armenian: “Շիբամ”
- Asturian: “Shibam”
- Azerbaijani: “Şibam”
- Bashkir: “Шибам”
- Basque: “Xibam”
- Belarusian: “Шыбам”
- Bengali: “শিবাম”
- Bulgarian: “Шибам”
- Burmese: “ရှီဘမ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Xibam”
- Cebuano: “Shibām”
- Chinese: “希巴姆”
- 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”
- Greek: “Σιμπάμ”
- Hausa: “Shibam Hadramawt”
- Hebrew: “שיבאם”
- Hungarian: “Sibám”
- Indonesian: “Syibam”
- Italian: “Shibam”
- Japanese: “シバーム”
- 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: “Szibam”
- Portuguese: “Shibam”
- Portuguese: “Xibã”
- Romanian: “Shibam”
- Russian: “Шибам”
- Serbian: “Шибам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šibam”
- Slovenian: “Šibam”
- South Azerbaijani: “شبام”
- Spanish: “Shibam”
- Swedish: “Shibam”
- Tajik: “Шибам”
- Tamil: “சிபாம்”
- Tatar: “Борынгы Шибам кальга-каласы”
- Thai: “ชิบามฮัฎเราะเมาต์”
- Turkish: “Şibam”
- Twi: “Shibam na ɛyɛ”
- Ukrainian: “Шибам”
- Urdu: “شبام”
- Vietnamese: “Shibam”
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