al-ʿAzīzīya
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العزيزية al-ʿAzīzīya |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 32 ' N , 13 ° 1' E | ||
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| Country | Libya | ||
| al-Jifara | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | LY-JI | ||
| height | 112 m | ||
| Residents | 4096 (2010) | ||
Al-ʿAzīzīya (also El Azizia and al-ʿAzīziyyah ; Arabic العزيزية, DMG al-ʿAzīzīya ) is a city in northwestern Libya and the capital of the al-Jifara municipality .
The city has 4,096 inhabitants (2010) and is 55 kilometers from Tripoli . It is located in the fertile Djeffara plain on an important trade route from north to south Libya.
On September 13, 1922, a temperature of 57.7 degrees Celsius was measured in al-ʿAzīzīya during a sand storm . However, the accuracy of the measurement is disputed. If the value is correct, it represents the highest meteorologically measured temperature ever on earth .
Individual evidence
- ↑ world-gazetteer.com: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: al-'Azīziyah )
- ↑ wettergefahren-fruehwarnung.de: Weather records in the world
- ↑ extremescience.com: Hottest Temperature .... El Azizia, Libya