Yemen
‘Amran Governorate
Shaharah District

Shaharah

Shaharah is a large mountain village and seat of Shaharah District of the , . The village "lies at 2600 metres and overlooks mountainous bulging swells to the south and shimmering hot plains to the north." It lies on top a sharp mountain of the same name, Jabal Shaharah, which is a spur of Jabal al-Ahnum, with its sides and top under extensive cultivation.
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  • Type: Town with 1,850 residents
  • Description: mountain in Shaharah District, Yemen
  • Also known as: “Hajera”, “Sahara”, “Šahâra”, “Shahārah”, “Shaharat al Ghis”, “Shahārat al Ghīs”, “Shiharah”, and “Shihārah”

Shaharah

Latitude
16.18442° or 16° 11′ 4″ north
Longitude
43.70254° or 43° 42′ 9″ east
Population
1,850
Elevation
2,518 metres (8,261 feet)
Open location code
7H855PM3+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1227141014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
70910
Wiki­data ID
Q3481209
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Shaharah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شهارة الغيس”
  • Arabic: “شهارة”
  • Arabic: “شهاره”
  • Asturian: “Shaharah”
  • Catalan: “Shaharah”
  • Chinese: “沙哈拉”
  • Dutch: “Shaharah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل شهاره”
  • Finnish: “Šahara”
  • Finnish: “Shahara”
  • French: “Shaharah”
  • French: “Shaharat al Ghis”
  • German: “Shaharat al Ghis”
  • Hausa: “Shaharah”
  • Hebrew: “שהארה”
  • Ladin: “Shaharah”
  • Malayalam: “ഷഹാറ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shahareh”
  • Persian: “شهاره (روستا)”
  • Persian: “شهاره”
  • Polish: “Szahara”
  • Russian: “Шехара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Shahārah, ’Amran”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Shahārah”
  • Spanish: “Shaharah”
  • Thai: “ชะฮาเราะฮ์”
  • Ukrainian: “Шехара”

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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 “Shaharah”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.