Sabha Destrict

Sabha (Arabic: سبها‎ Sabhā) is ane o the destricts o Libya. It is locatit in the centre o the kintra. The caipital is Sabha wi a population o 130,000.

Sabha (سبها)
Destrict
Kintra	Libie
Capital	Sabha
Area	15,330 km2 (5,919 sq mi) [1]
Population	134,162 (2006) [2]
Density	9/km2 (23/sq mi)
Map o Libie wi Sabha destrict heichlichtit

Sabha Destrict in the pre-2007 admeenistrative seestem

Owerview

Sabha haes ane sma domestic airport. Sabha toun is the maist important ceety o soothren Libie. The population is maistly a mixture o Arab an Black. Unmixed Black are an' a' a common ethnicity.

The Sahara Desert begins at Sabha. Thare are illegal passenger buses that arrive at this ceety frae soothren African kintras sic as Niger, a journey which takes seiven days. It is ane o the maist dangerous routes as it goes throu the desert. Bus drivers aften lose thair wey an passengers whiles dee frae lack o fuid an watter. Fowk frae Ghana, Togo, an Sudan come throu Sabha an then tae Europe throu Tripoli.

Thare is a big lake inside the Sahara Desert near Sabha ceety named Gaberoun, the hame o a umwhile veelage which haes nou acome a popular tourist spot.

Sabha borders the follaein destricts:

• Wadi Al Shatli - north
• Al Jufrah - east
• Murzuq - sooth
• Wadi Al Hayaa - wast

The major settlements o Sabha include

• Samnu (سمنو)
• Tamanhant (تمنهنت)
• Umm al `Abid
• Umm al Ahrar
• Al Mahdia (المهدية)
• Az Zighan (الزيغن)
• Sukrah (Sakra) (سكرة)
• Al Nssiria
• Ghadduwah (Goddua) (غدوة)
• Hagiara
• Al Tanawia