Al Wahat Destrict

Al Wahat ( Al Wāḥāt, ), occasionally spelt Al Wahad or Al Wahah () is ane o the destricts o Libie.Statesman's Yearbook 2006  Its caipital an lairgest city is Ajdabiya.

History
Traditionally Al Wahat wis the wastren pairt o Cyrenaica. Wi the diveesion o Libie intae ten govrenorates in 1963, Al Wahat became pairt o the Misrata Govrenorate. In the 1973 reorganization it became pairt o Al Khalji Govrenorate."Map of the ten governorates of Lybia", Area Handbook for Libya, United States Library of Congress  In 1983 Al Khalji wis dividit intae a number o baladiyat (destricts), wi wha is nou Al Wahat being includit in the Ajdabiya baladiyah an the Jalu baladiyah. In the 1988 reorganization, Jalu wis subsumit athin Ajdabiya baladiyah.

The status o this aurie in the reorganization o 1995 which creatit thirteen destricts (shabiyat) is unclear; housomeivver, in the 1998 reorganization intae twinty-sax destricts, the name "Al-Wahad" appears as a destrict for the first time. In 2001 the aurie wis dividit atween Al Wahat Destrict an Ajdabiya Destrict.  In 2007 the umwhile Al Wahat destrict (aurie:108,670 km2) wis enlairged tae include wha haed been the Ajdabiya District an pairt o Al Kufrah Destrictشعبيات الجماهيرية العظمى – Sha'biyat of Great Jamahiriya , accessed 10 May 2009, in Arabic. It nou haes essentially the bundaries that the baladiyah (destrict) o Ajdabiya did frae 1988 tae 1995.

Bundaries
Al Wahat haes a short border wi Egyp, an borders the follaein Libian destricts:
Al Butnan - east an northeast
Al Kufrah - sooth
Al Jufrah, soothwast
Surt - wast
Benghazi - north
Al Marj - north
Al Jabal al Akhdar - north
Darnah - north

Touns
The follaein major touns are locatit athin Al Wahat Destrict, as o 2007:  Ajdabiya, Al Labbah, El Agheila, Jalu, an Sultan.

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