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Wusab As Safil district

District of Dhamar Governorate, Yemen

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4117298 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wusab As Safil District is a district of the Dhamar Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 149,531 inhabitants. It is part of the historical and geographical region of Wusab.

It's estimated that the population in Wusab As Safil District would be 248,419 in 2023 by Central Statistical Organization (Yemen).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wusab As Safil district” as district of Dhamar Governorate, Yemen. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wusab, Safil and district can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district of Dhamar Governorate, Yemen. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4117298. Authority coordinates are 14.433, 43.750. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2023.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wusab As Safil district”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wusab As Safil district primary sources, Wusab As Safil district archive and Wusab research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wusab As Safil district”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Wusab As Safil district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.