Al-Saadah | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Oman |
Pushpin Label Position: | below |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Oman |
Coordinates: | 17.053°N 55.065°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Oman |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Dhofar Governorate |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Total: | 5,944 |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | +4 |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Al-Saadah (Arabic: سدح) is a coastal town 30–40 km from Salalah in the southern Omani governorate of Dhofar. There are a few supermarkets, shops, schools and colleges in the town, as well as a police station and a healthcare centre run by the Ministry of Health. Saadha is linked to the nearby towns of Taqa, Mirbat, and Thumrait by motorable roads.
In 1908, J.G. Lorimer recorded Sadah in his Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, noting its location as being on the coast eastof Mirbat, roughly 20 miles or more from that place by land. He wrote: