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Khor al-Mukalla
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Mukalla was founded in 1035 as a fishing settlement.

Mukalla
Yemen
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Mukalla

Yemen

Country
Yemen
Population
259.0K
Coordinates
14.53, 49.12
712th most populous city in the world

Mukalla, officially the Mukalla City District, is a seaport and the capital city district of Yemen's largest governorate, Hadhramaut. The city is in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Aden, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, about 480 kilometres east of Aden.

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