Zobā saménāwi qayeḥ bāḥri (Eritrea)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Zobā saménāwi qayeḥ bāḥri (Eritrea)
Other forms of name
Aqlīm Shimāl al-Bahr al-Ahmar (Eritrea)
N.R. Sea Zone (Eritrea)
Northern Red Sea (Eritrea)
Samenāwi Qayeḥ Bāḥri (Eritrea)
Semēnawī K'eyih Bahrī (Eritrea)
Semien-Keih-Bahri (Eritrea)
Zoba Semēnawī K'eyih Bahrī (Eritrea)
Associated country
Eritrea
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 131679133
Wikidata: Q27910
Library of congress: no2001032323
OCoLC: oca05470569
Sources of Information
  • Fanqel, 2005:t.p. (N.R. Sea Zone) p. 3 of cover (Aqlīm Shimāl al-Bahr al-Ahmar)
  • GeoNames, 16 April 2014:Eritrea section (Zoba Semēnawī K'eyih Bahrī (Approved); Semēnawī K'eyih Bahrī (Short); Northern Red Sea (Anglicized Variant); Samenāwi Qayeḥ Bāḥri (Variant); Semien-Keih-Bahri (Variant); first-order administrative division; 16°00ʹ00ʺN 039°00ʹ00ʺE)
  • Sawāḥel, 2000:t.p. (Zobā saménāwi qayeḥ bāḥri)
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Wikipedia description:

The Northern Red Sea region (Tigrinya: ዞባ ሰሜናዊ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ, romanized: Zoba Semienawi Keyih Bahri, Arabic: إقليم شمال البحر الأحمر), is an administrative region of Eritrea. It lies along the northern three quarters of the Red Sea, and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and the coastal city of Massawa. As of 2005, the region had a population of 653,300 compared to a population of 576,200 in 2001. The net growth rate was 11.80 per cent. The total area of the province was 27800.00 km2 and the density was 23.50 persons per km2.

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