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Sidon (/ ˈ s aɪ d ən / SY-dən) or better known as Saida (/ ˈ s aɪ d ə, ˈ s ɑː ɪ d ə / SY-də, SAH-id-ə; Arabic: صيدا, romanized: Ṣaydā) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate , of which it is the capital.
Sidon serves as the Mediterranean terminus of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a 1,720 km (1,068.76 mi) long oil pipeline that pumps oil from the fields near Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia.
South Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الجنوب, romanized: muḥāfaẓat al-Janūb, or simply الجنوب) is one of the governorates of Lebanon, with a population of 590,000 inhabitants and an area of 929.6 km 2. The capital is Sidon. The lowest elevation is sea-level; the highest is 1,000 meters.
Saïda is located in north-western Algeria, on the southern slopes of the Tell Atlas mountain range at the northern fringe of the High Plateaus. The city lies on the right bank of the Wadi Saïda, protected by wooded mountains on the opposite shore that rise steeply from the valley floor to an elevation of some 4,000 feet (1,200 metres).
Saida, Lebanon, the Arabic name for Sidon, a city in Lebanon Saida, a village in Helan, Mandi Bahauddin , Punjab province, Pakistan Saida, Syria , a town in Daraa Governorate, Syria
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Saida had a population of 252 Muslims, [8] increasing in the 1931 census to 351 Muslims, living in 75 houses. [9] In the 1945 statistics the population of Seida was 450 Muslims, [10] with 5,060 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. [11]
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