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Khemed is a fictional country in ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is an Arab emirate located on the shores of the Red Sea and has been compared to Jordan, with its Emir resembling the Hashemite kings and the character Mull Pasha corresponding to the British General Glubb Pasha. Khemed is depicted in ''Land of Black Gold'' and ''The Red Sea Sharks''. The name means "got it!" in Marols, the Brussels Flemish dialect. The names of many people and places in the country are based on Marols phrases. ==Geography== Hergé's stories place the Arab Emirate Khemed somewhere on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, near Saudi Arabia. More precisely, the state is outside the Gulf of Aqaba, being an enclave in what is now Saudi Arabia. According to the narrative in ''Land of Black Gold'', the capital is less than one day's journey by car from the port, which in the original serialization in ''Le Petit Vingtième'' (1939–40) and ''Tintin'' magazine (1948–50) is referred to as the oil port of "Caiffa". In the first album edition (1950) it is clearly identified with Haifa (so stated by the Lieutenant of the Speedol Star) and is fictionalized as "Khemikhal" ("Khemkhah" in French) in editions from 1971 on.〔Edhem Eldem and Osmanlı Bankası (2007). ''Consuming the Orient'', p 191〕 The capital is on the shore of the Red Sea halfway between Aqaba and Jeddah, as is clear in the map prepared by Hergé for ''The Red Sea Sharks''.〔Yves Horeau (2004). ''Tintin, Haddock et les bateaux'', p 48〕 The region is subject to the Khamsin, a burning sandstorm which blows from the Egyptian desert towards Palestine.〔Hergé, ''Land of Black Gold''〕 Foreign correspondents covering Khemed are based in Beirut〔Hergé, ''The Red Sea Sharks''〕 and a regular air service (formerly by DC3) links Beirut to the emirate's capital. In Khemed one can find ruins, mistaken by Haddock as Roman, but actually from the Nabataean civilization, like those in Petra, Jordan. The country is inhabited by Bedouin tribes, with an age-old feud between the family of Bab El Ehr and that of Ben Kalish Ezab; the former is nomadic and present in the western desert, while the latter is settled on the coastline and form a majority in the capital. The family of Patrash Pasha is the third largest of the nomadic tribes and usually lives far from cities. The capital and principal city of the country is Wadesdah (Brussels dialect ''wadesdah'' = "What's that?"). The second city of the emirate, the oil port of Khemikhal (''chemical''), is very active. The Emir resides in Hasch El Hemm, located 20 km from the capital. (This is a pun on the French abbreviation H.L.M., ''habitation à loyer modéré'' = "low rent housing", meaning council flat (GB) or apartment in a public housing unit (US).〔http://www.free-tintin.net/langues2.htm À la découverte de Tintin〕) The territory of Khemed consists mainly of a very large desert, Jebel Kadheïh. The country's main resource is the exploitation of onshore oil. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khemed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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