page_title: Wazzin
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wazzin / History
caption_attribution_description: English: mountains near wazzin
context_page_description: Wazzin is a town in the western Tripolitania region at the western boundary of Libya. It serves as a border crossing to Tunisia. The town is located south-inland from the Mediterranean Sea coast, and is 360 kilometres west of Tripoli.
  Wazzin is in the desert near the western end of the Nafusa Mountains range, in the Nalut District.
caption: Wazzin in the desert, with Nafusa Mountains.
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