Zuwetina
Sign in to saveZuwetina 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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