Ajdabiya was one of the districts of Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

. It lay in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital was Ajdabiya

Ajdabiya

Ajdabiya was one of the districts of Libya. It lay in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital was Ajdabiya. As of 2007 it was subsumed within the enlarged Al Wahat District....

. As of 2007 it was subsumed within the enlarged Al Wahat District.

When Ajdabiya District was in existence from 2001 to 2007, it had, in the north, a short piece of coastline on the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

. On land, it bordered the following districts:

• Al Hizam Al Akhdar
  Al Hizam Al Akhdar
  Hizam al Akhdar was one of the 32 districts of Libya, prior to the 2007 administrative reorganization. The former capital city was Abyar. The territory of Hizam al Akhdar was transferred to the newly enlarged Marj District...
  
   - northeast
• Al Wahat
  Al Wahat
  Al Wahat , occasionally spelt Al Wahad or Al Wahah is one of the districts of Libya. Its capital and largest city is Ajdabiya.-History:...
  
   - east
• Al Kufrah
  Al Kufrah
  Kufra or Kofra , also spelled Cufra, is the largest district of Libya. Its capital is Al Jawf, one of the oases in Kufra basin. There is a very large oil refinery near the capital....
  
   - southeast
• Al Jufrah
  Al Jufrah
  Jufra or Jofra is one of the districts of Libya. It is in the centre of the country. Its capital is Hun.Jufra was originally one of the 25 baladiya in the administrative sistem of Libya established in 1988. In 2001 It became a Shabiya, and its territorial extension was reduced...
  
   - southwest
• Sirte
  Sirte
  Sirte is a city in LibyaSirte may also refer to:* Sirte Declaration, a 1999 resolution to create the African Union* Sirte Oil Company, a Libyan oil companyIn geography:* Gulf of Sirte, alias for Gulf of Sidra on Libya's coast...
  
   - west

Ajdabiya District was also in existence from 1987 to 1995 when it covered a larger area, including all of the 2001-2007 Al Wahat

Al Wahat

Al Wahat , occasionally spelt Al Wahad or Al Wahah is one of the districts of Libya. Its capital and largest city is Ajdabiya.-History:...

 district, and some additional area to the south.

Towns and villages 2001-2007

Ajdabiya

Ajdabiya

Ajdabiya was one of the districts of Libya. It lay in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital was Ajdabiya. As of 2007 it was subsumed within the enlarged Al Wahat District....

, Al Hiri

Al Hiri

Al Hiri is a town in the Al Wahat District in the Cyrenaica region of northeastern Libya. From 2001 to 2007 it was part of Ajdabiya District. Formerly it was part of the Jalu District .-External links:***...

, Labba, Mawahi, Al `Uqaylah (still known as El Agheila

El Agheila

El Agheila is a coastal city at the bottom of the Gulf of Sidra in far western Cyrenaica, Libya. In 1988 it was placed in Ajdabiya District; between 1995 and 2001 the district name is not known; however, it was again placed into Ajdabiya District in 2001...

), Shawashina, Shurraf, Awjila

Awjila

Awjila is a Berber-speaking oasis town in the Al Wahat District in the Cyrenaica region of northeastern Libya. It is the place after which the Awgila-Berber language, an Eastern Berber language, is named...

, Zuwetina, Brega

Brega

Brega may refer to:*Brega , an inhabited location in Libya**Marsa Brega Airport, the airport for Brega-People:...

, Jalu

Jalu

Jalu, Jaloo, or Gialo is a town in the Al Wahat District in northeastern Libya in the Jalo oasis. From 2001 to 2007 it was part of Ajdabiya District. Formerly it was the administrative seat of Jalu District ....

, Jikharra

Jikharra

Jikharra is a desert oasis town in the Al Wahat District, Cyrenaica region, in north-eastern Libya. Prior to 2007, it was in the Ajdabiya District.-External links:**...

, Marada, Masliwa, Qaryat Bishr

Qaryat Bishr

Qaryat Bishr is a Mediterranean coastal town on the Gulf of Sidra in central-northeastern Libya. It is in the Al Wahat District of the Cyrenaica region.It was in the former Ajdabiya District until 2007.-External links:**...

, Rashida, Sultan

Sultan, Libya

Sultan is a coastal town in the Al Wahat District, Cyrenaica region, in north-eastern Libya.From 1983 to 1995 and again from 2001 to 2007 it was part of the District of Ajdabiya.-External links:*...