Al Aziziyah

Al Aziziyah ăzĭzēˈä [key], town, NW Libya, near Tripoli. It is a major trade center of the Jifarah plain. Al Aziziyah was long considered to have recorded the highest shade temperature on earth, 136℉ (57.8℃), in 1922, but that record was disqualified in 2012 by the World Meteorological Organizaton.

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