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Alula District

Alula

Alula, also spelled Aluula, is a coastal town in the northeastern Ra'as Aseir region and is part of the state of , on the coast of the Guardafui Channel.
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  • Type: Village with 6,100 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Aeula”, “Alula, Somalia”, “Aluula”, “Bandar Alula”, and “Caluula”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alula Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving Aluula, a Gulf of Aden coastal town in the region of northeastern . The runway is 0.5 kilometres inland, paralleling the shore.

Alula

Latitude
11.96643° or 11° 57′ 59″ north
Longitude
50.75715° or 50° 45′ 26″ east
Population
6,100
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
ALU
United Nations Location Code
SO ALU
Open location code
7H3GXQ84+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313930012
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
63081
Wiki­data ID
Q448076
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Alula” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بندر علولة”
  • Arabic: “علولة”
  • Catalan: “Alula”
  • Catalan: “Aluula”
  • Cebuano: “Caluula”
  • Chinese: “阿卢拉”
  • Dutch: “Alula”
  • Dutch: “Aluula”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “علوله”
  • French: “Calula”
  • German: “Aluula”
  • German: “Caluula”
  • Irish: “Aluula”
  • Italian: “Alula”
  • Japanese: “アルーラ”
  • Japanese: “カルーラ”
  • Persian: “الولا”
  • Polish: “Caluula”
  • Russian: “Алула”
  • Slovenian: “Alula”
  • Slovenian: “Aluula”
  • Slovenian: “Calula”
  • Slovenian: “Caluula”
  • Somali: “Caluula”
  • Spanish: “ʿAlūla”
  • Urdu: “علولہ، صومالیہ”
  • Urdu: “علولہ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alula”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.