City
Sidra, Libya
Northern Africa
Sidra is a port town in the Sirte District of Tripolitania, Libya, about twenty-three kilometers west of Ra's Lanuf, and gives its name to the Gulf of Sidra, a Cold War-era alternative name for the Gulf of Sirte. It is the site of Libya's largest oil depot, shipping about 447,000 barrels of oil per day, a facility whose importance grew as Libya's oil-based economy developed in the last quarter of the twentieth century, and it has an adjacent airport. Its population was 9,186 according to 1995 data.
Facts
Elevation (m) Latitude30.629444 degrees north 2 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Wikipedia: Sidra, Libya
en.wikipedia.org infobox settlement, population_total field (as of 1995), read 2026-09-27
population_total='9186' population_as_of='1995'
Infobox: elevation_m
10
- In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source2. Sidra, Libya (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 30.629444, longitude 18.350278
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 10 m
View the Source3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 30.75, 18.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 30.75, 18.25
30.75 18.25 BWh
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, africa zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Africa/Tripoli; LY has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Africa/Tripoli; LY has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 ... 1:00 Libya CE%sT 2013 Oct 25 2:00 2:00 - EET
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