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Bir Lehlou
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municipality and town in Western Sahara
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Bir Lehlou is a city and municipality located in Western Sahara. The territory is claimed by Morocco and is part of the Free Zone. It is situated within the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra state and the caïdat de Tifariti. The official language of the area is Arabic, and the place is known locally as البير الحلو, with the official name being البئر الحلو.
The settlement has an elevation of 475 meters above sea level. According to available data, its population is 0. Bir Lehlou is twinned with Campi Bisenzio, Monteroni d'Arbia, Prato, and Montemurlo. The location uses the UTC±00:00 and UTC+01:00 time zones.
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- Locality
- caïdat de Tifariti قيادة تفاريتي
- Region
- Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra ⵍⵄⵢⵓⵏ-ⵙⴰⵇⵢⴰ ⵍⵃⴰⵎⵔⴰ العيون الساقية الحمراء
- Country
- República Árabe Saharaui Democrática الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Territory
- Western Sahara
- Claimed by
- Kingdom of Morocco , Sahrawi Republic
- Controlled by
- Sahrawi Republic
- Type
- Municipality
- Mayor
- Abeid Moulud
- Elevation
- 475 m (1,558 ft)
- Climate
- BWh
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality
- Part of
- Free Zone
- Official name
- البئر الحلو
- Country
- Western Sahara
- Official language
- Arabic
- Elevation
- 475
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Bir Lehlu school.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Montemurlo
- Commons category
- Bir Lehlou
- territory claimed by
- Morocco
- native label
- البير الحلو
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Encyclopedic overview
Bir Lehlou (also transliterated Bir Lahlou, Bir Lehlu Arabic: بئر الحلو) is an oasis town in north-eastern Western Sahara, 236 km from Smara, near the Mauritanian border and east of the border wall, in Polisario Front-held territory. It has a pharmacy, a school and a mosque. It is the head of the 5th military region of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and was the factual temporary capital of SADR until Tifariti became the temporary capital in 2008. It is also the name of a Daïra of the Wilaya of Smara, in the Sahrawi refugee camps.
The name "Bir Lehlou" is transcribed from Maghrebi Arabic, and means "the sweet (meaning palatable or non-salty) water well". The Modern Standard Arabic transcription would be "bir al Halū" (بئر الحلو).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bir Lehlou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.