Kufra District

Coordinates: 24°N 23°E / 24°N 23°E / 24; 23
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Kufra
District
Kufra in 1930
Kufra in 1930
Map of Libya with Kufra district highlighted
Map of Libya with Kufra district highlighted
CountryLibya
CapitalAl Jawf
Area
 • Total453,611 km2 (175,140 sq mi)
Population
 (2006[1])
 • Total50,104
License Plate Code20

Kufra, Kufrah or Kofra (

oases in Kufra basin.[2] There is a very large oil refinery near the capital. In the late 15th century, Leo Africanus reported an oasis in the land of the Berdoa, visited by a caravan coming from Awjila. It is possible that this oasis was identical with either the Al Jawf or the Taiserbo
oasis, and on early modern maps, the Al Kufra region was often labelled as Berdoa based on this report.

History

The name Kufra (comes from Kufuh and Epher) itself is a derivation from

the Italians by the 1930s. In 1931, during the campaign of Cyrenaica, General Rodolfo Graziani easily conquered Kufra, considered a strategic region, leading about 3,000 soldiers from infantry and artillery, supported by about twenty bombers.[4]

Geography

Kufra's location in Libya's southeast places it on the country's border with

Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region, Chad in the south. Domestically, it borders the following districts, namely, Murzuq in west, Jufra in northwest and Al Wahat in north. Kufra is a part of Cyrenacian geographical subdivision, the largest region in Libya and which is mostly semi arid in nature. The region receives an annual rainfall of 5 in (130 mm). There are no perennial rivers in the region, but the region is abundant with groundwater aquifers.[5] All three regions of the county have mostly a flat undulating plain and occasional plateau, with an average elevation of around 423 m (1,388 ft). Around 91 per cent of the land is covered by desert, with only 8.8 per cent agricultural land (with only 1% arable lands) and 0.1 per cent of forests. It is desert climate in all other parts of the region. Dust storms lasting four to eight days are fairly common during Spring.[6][7]

Per 2006 census, there were totally 13,313 economically active people in the district. There were 6,295 government employees, 2,178 employers, 6,454 first level workers, and 1 second level worker. There were 85 workers in state administration, 85 in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry, 2,445 in agriculture and hunting, 2,029 in education, 1,558 in private enterprises, 584 in health and social work, 85 in production, 2,214 in technical work, and 354 service workers. The total enrollment in schools was 17,364 and the number of people above secondary stage and less than graduation was 875.[8] As per the report from World Health Organization (WHO), there was one communicable disease centre, one dental clinic, one general clinic, three out-patient clinics, five pharmacies, 16 PHC centres, one rural clinic, and no specialized clinics.[9]

Local administration

During 2007, the northern part of Kufra District was moved to the newly created

Jebel Uweinat lie southeast of the basin.[10] Libya became independent in 1951 from the colonial empire and generally known for its oil rich resources.[11] As a part of decentralization in 2012, the country is administratively split into 13 regions from the original 25 municipalities, which were further divided in 1,500 communes.[12] As of 2016, there were 22 administrative divisions in the country in the form of districts.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ "Districts of libya". statoids.com. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
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  3. ^ Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Reise von Tripolis nach der Oase Kufra (1881).[1]
  4. ISBN 9780521337670
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  5. ISBN 9780816072293
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  6. ^ a b "Libya profile". 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  7. ISBN 9783540464631
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  8. ^ "Census of Libya". General Information Authority, Libya. 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Health statistics of Libya". World Health Organization (WHO). 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  10. ^ Bertarelli 1929, p. 515.
  11. ^ "Libya profile - Timeline". BBC. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  12. ^ Great Socialist People's Libyan Arag Jamahiriya Public Administration and Country profile (PDF) (Report). Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), United Nations. 2004. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2016.

References

  • Bertarelli, L.V. (1929). Guida d'Italia, Vol. XVII (in Italian). Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana.

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