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Key facts
- Country
- Libya
- Capital
- Al Jawf
- Total
- 453,611 km (175,140 sq mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kufra, Kufrah or Kofra (Arabic: الكفرة Al Kufra), also spelled Cufra in Italian, is the largest district of Libya and the second-largest African administrative division. It is slightly smaller than the country of Turkmenistan. Its capital is Al Jawf, one of the oases in Kufra basin. There is a very large oil refinery near the capital. In the late 15th century, Leo Africanus reported an oasis in the land of the Berdoa, visited by a caravan coming from Awjila. It is possible that this oasis in question was either the Al Jawf or the Taiserbo oasis, and on early modern maps, the Al Kufra region was often labelled as Berdoa based on this report.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kufra District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.