Az Zawiyah

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Az Zawiyah (Az or Ez or Al Zawiyah or Zawiya or Zawia or Zavia or Zauia, most commonly Az Zawiyah), (Arabic: الزاوية‎, transliteration: Az Zāwiyah), (sometimes called Az Zawiyah Al Gharbiyah, الزاوية الغربية ), is a city of northwestern Libya situated on the Mediterranean coast about 40 km west of Tripoli. Az Zawiyah is the capital of a shabiyah (district) with the same name (see Az Zawiyah District).

In the Libyan censuses of 1973 and 1984, the city counted about 100,000, it was then and possibly it continues to be today the fourth largest city in Libya by population (after Tripoli, Benghazi and Misratah). In 2006, the Az Zawiyah District was estimated to have a population of about 291,000,^[1] half of which or more was concentrated in the city. Az Zawiyah has a university named the Seventh of April University which was founded in 1988. There also an oil field nearby the city and Az Zawiyah has one of the two most important oil refineries in Libya.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Libya: Districts & Cities - Population Statistics & Maps", accessed 9 May 2009

[edit] See also

• Tripolitania
• The old Baladiyat-system in the section on (Baladiyat) (in the article "Municipalities of Libya").
• The new Sha'biyat-system in the section on administrative divisions (in the article "Libya").

[edit] External links

• Az-Zawiyah page on Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
• Map of Az Zawiyah on the dynamic atlas of Encarta Online (encarta.msn.com).
• Az Zawiyah dynamic map from Google Maps.

Coordinates: 32°45′N 12°43′E / 32.75°N 12.717°E / 32.75; 12.717