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. In the late 15th century,
Leo Africanus reported an oasis in the land of the
Berdoa, visited by a caravan coming from
Awjila. It is possible that this oasis was identical with either the Al Jawf or the
Taiserbo oasis, and on early modern maps, the Al Kufra region was often labelled as
Berdoa based on this report.