Official Name: | Mizda |
Native Name: | مزدة |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Libya |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Libya |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Libya |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Tripolitania |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Jabal al Gharbi |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 23216 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 31.445°N 12.9831°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 454 |
Registration Plate Type: | License Plate Code |
Registration Plate: | 38 |
Mizda or Mesdah (Tamazight: ⵎⵉⵣⴷⴰ, Mizda) is a town in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya. It was the capital of the former Mizda District.
Just to the west of Mizda is the Mizda Army Base at
The Berber tribe Awlad Abu Say is centered around Mizda and Gharyan to the north.[3]