Al Wahat District

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Al Wahat District is an administrative region in northeastern Libya that includes parts of the country’s oil-rich desert areas and key coastal settlements.

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Al Wahat District canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division
district
administrativeLevel second-level subdivision
borders Al Kufra District
Al Marj District
Benghazi District
Egypt
Jufra District
Sirte, Libya
surface form: Sirte District
borderType land border with Egypt
capital Ajdabiya
climate arid
desert climate
containsRegion Al Wahat
Libyan Desert
oil-rich desert areas
containsSettlement Ajdabiya
Awjila
Jakharrah
Jalu
country Libya
countrySubdivisionOf Libya
formerName Al Wahat
surface form: Al Wahat Shabiya
governingCountry Libya
surface form: State of Libya
hasCoastalSettlements Ajdabiya
other key coastal settlements
hasCoastlineOn Mediterranean Sea
hasEconomicActivity natural gas extraction
oil production
petroleum industry
language Arabic
locatedIn northeastern Libya
locatedInRegion eastern Libya
locatedOnContinent Africa
namedAfter Awjila Oasis
surface form: Al Wahat (The Oases)
officialLanguage Arabic
partOf Cyrenaica
strategicImportance major oil-producing area of Libya
transport hub between coast and interior desert
terrain desert
oasis regions
timeZone UTC+2

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Brega locatedInAdministrativeDivision Al Wahat District
Marsa al-Brega locatedIn Al Wahat District
Ras Lanuf governorate Al Wahat District