Al Jawf (Arabic: الجوف Al Ğawf) is a town in southeastern Libya, the capital of the Kufra district in Libya.

[1] Al Jawf receives almost no rain, averaging only 2.5 millimetres or 0.1 inches per year.

The city lies in the largest oasis in the Kufra basin,[2] extracting the water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.

The surrounding area contains clusters of center-pivot irrigation systems used for agriculture.

The distinctive pattern was photographed from orbit by the crew of the International Space Station in 2016.