Maʽbar | |
Native Name: | معبر |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Yemen |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Yemen |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Yemen |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Dhamar |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Jahran |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | Yemen Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 14.794°N 44.2935°W[1] |
Elevation M: | 2329 |
Maʽbar (Arabic: معبر) is a market and farming town[2] in Dhamar Governorate, Yemen, and the seat of Jahran District.[1] It is located about 60 km south of Sanaa, at the northern end of the Dhamar plain, at the intersection of the country's main north–south highway and the old route down to the Yemeni Tihama, which was paved in the 1980s.[2] The pipeline connecting the oilfields in Al Jawf Governorate to Ra's Isa on the Red Sea coast crosses the north–south highway near Maʽbar.[2]