Official Name: | Qaryat Umar al Mukhtar |
Native Name: | قرية عمر المختار |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Libya |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Libya |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Libya |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Cyrenaica |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Jabal al Akhdar |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 6,521 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | UTC + 2 |
Coordinates: | 32.6303°N 21.6747°W |
Qaryat Umar al Mukhtar (Arabic: قرية عمر المختار) is a village in the District of Jabal al Akhdar in north-eastern Libya.[2] It was named after the Libyan resistance leader Omar Mukhtar. Under the Italian rule it was known as Mameli after the Italian patriot Goffredo Mameli.[3]
It is located 22 km south of Bayda.