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Country
  
Yemen

Local time
  
Sunday 3:24 PM

Governorate
  
Hadhramaut

Ash Shihr

Time zone
  
Yemen Standard Time (UTC+3)

Fishermen at ash shihr


Ash-Shihr (Arabic: الشحر‎‎) (transliteration al-Shiḥr) is a coastal town in Hadhramaut, southern Yemen. It is located at around 14°45′39″N 49°36′25″E. It was a part of the Qu'aiti Sultanate before the unified Yemen was formed.

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Map of Ash Shihr, Yemen

Ash Shihr was involved in the export of frankincense in ancient times, to places as far as China.

Weaving at ash shihr


References

Ash Shihr Wikipedia