Ghayl Ba Wazir (or Gjail Ba Wazir
) is a city in eastern
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast an ...
. It is located in the
Hadhramaut Governorate
Hadhramaut or Hadramawt or Hadramout ( ar, حضرموت ''Ḥaḍramawt'') is a governorate of Yemen. Lying within the large historical region of Hadhramaut, it is the country's largest governorate.
The capital of Hadhramut is the city of Mu ...
.
Economy
As of 1920, Ghayl Ba Wazir was producing
tobacco
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ch ...
. The tobacco, called ''humuni'', is brown and coarse and has been described as having a "flavour very strong."
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Ghayl Ba Wazir
Populated places in Hadhramaut Governorate
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