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Vinony's link graph records 72 inbound references to Kufra District, and connects out to Egypt, Sudan and Libya.
The entry is geolocated on the map in KF.
It sits within the topics Cyrenaica, Districts of Libya and Kufra District.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Libya
- Capital
- Al Jawf
- Total
- 453,611 km (175,140 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Libya
- Country
- Libya
- Located in
- Libya
- Capital
- Al Jawf
- Population
- 50104
- Area
- 483510
- Shares border with
- New Valley Governorate
- Image
- Kufra Oasis.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Kufra District
- topic has template
- Template:Kufra
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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.