Al Bayda', also transliterated as Al-Baidhah or Beida , not to be mixed with al-Bayda' in al-Jawf, the ancient Nashqum) is a town in central Yemen, in the Governorate of Al Bayda'. It is located 130 miles SE of Sanaa, at . Its population, according to the 2004 Yemeni census, was 571,778 (...) (from Wikipedia)