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Zuwetina or Zuetine ( Marsa Uasili; ) is a coastal town and oil-exporting port in the Al Wahat District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. From 1987 to 2007, Zuwetina was in the former Ajdabiya District.

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Place details

Locality
ⵍⵣⵡⵉⵜⵉⵏⴰ الزويتينة
Region
ⵍⵡⴰⵃⴰⵜ الواحات
Country
ⵍⵉⴱⵢⴰ ليبيا Libya
Population
21,015
Timezone
Africa/Tripoli

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Key facts

Settlement.population_as_of
2004
Settlement.official_name
Zuwetina
Settlement.native_name
الزويتينة
Settlement.settlement_type
Town
Settlement.pushpin_map
Libya
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Libya
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Cyrenaica
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Al Wahat
Settlement.unit_pref
Imperial
Settlement.population_total
21015
Settlement.population_blank1_title
Ethnicities
Settlement.population_blank2_title
Religions
Settlement.timezone
EET
Settlement.utc_offset
+2

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Zuwetina or Zuetine ( Marsa Uasili; ) is a coastal town and oil-exporting port in the Al Wahat District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. From 1987 to 2007, Zuwetina was in the former Ajdabiya District.

The oil terminal in the small harbor is operated by the Zuwetina Oil Company. The town's primary activities relate to oil production and transshipping crude oil. It is about 180 km southwest of Benghazi. The port has the capacity to store 4.3 million barrels of crude oil, 986,000 barrels of naphtha, 136,000 barrels of liquefied butane gas and 86,000 barrels of liquefied propane gas.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zuwetina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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