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Balhaf
Balhaf is a small coastal settlement on the Gulf of Aden in Shabwah Governorate, southern Yemen. It was the seat of the Wahidi Sultanate of Balhaf, one of the Wahidi states under British protection in the Aden Protectorate, which joined the Federation of South Arabia in the 1960s. Since 2009 it has been the site of Yemen's liquefied natural gas export terminal.
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