‘Amran
ʿAmrān is a small city in western central Yemen. It is the capital of 'Amran Governorate, and was formerly part of Sana'a Governorate. It is located 52.9 kilometres by road northwest of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, at the upper end of the al-Bawn plain.
- Type: City with 96,400 residents
- Description: city in Yemen
- Also known as: “’Amran”, “‘Umrān”, “`Amran”, “`Umran”, “Amran”, and “ʿAmrān”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Najr and Bayt Shubayl.
Najr
Village
Najr is a village in Iyal Surayh District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen. It is located just to the south of 'Amran, on a small hill at the lower end of the Wadi Khuzamir.
Bayt Shubayl
Village
Sanaa, also spelled San'a' or Sana, is a governorate of Yemen. The capital is Sanaa, which is also the national capital. However, the city of Sanaa is not part of the governorate but instead forms the separate governorate of Amanat Al-Asemah.
Al-Jannat
Village
Al-Jannat is a small town in Amran District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen. It is located about 2.5 km from 'Amran, the governorate capital, at the edge of the al-Bawn plain.
‘Amran
- Category: locality
- Location: ’Amran, ‘Amran Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.6628° or 15° 39′ 46″ north
Longitude
43.943° or 43° 56′ 35″ east
Population
96,400
Elevation
2,239 metres (7,346 feet)
Open location code
7H75MW7V+45
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“‘Amran” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አምራን”
- Arabic: “عمران، عمران”
- Arabic: “عمران”
- Azerbaijani: “Əmran”
- Belarusian: “Амран”
- Bengali: “আমরান”
- Cebuano: “‘Amrān”
- Croatian: “Amran”
- Czech: “‘Amrán”
- Danish: “Amran”
- Dutch: “‘Amran”
- Dutch: “’Amran”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عمران”
- Finnish: “Amran”
- French: “‘Amran”
- French: “Amran”
- German: “‘Amran”
- German: “`Amran”
- German: “Amran”
- German: “Amrān”
- German: “ʿAmrān”
- Hausa: “‘Amran”
- Hebrew: “עמראן”
- Hindi: “अमरान”
- Indonesian: “‘Amran”
- Italian: “‘Amran”
- Italian: “’Amran”
- Japanese: “アムラーン”
- Japanese: “アムラン”
- Javanese: “‘Amran”
- Kazakh: “Амран”
- Kirghiz: “Амран”
- Malay: “‘Amran”
- Malay: “’Amran”
- Mingrelian: “ამრანი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “ʿAmrān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “‘Amran”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “’Amran”
- Oromo: “‘Amran”
- Panjabi: “ਅਮਰਾਨ”
- Persian: “عمران”
- Polish: “Amran”
- Portuguese: “Amrān”
- Portuguese: “Amrão”
- Pushto: “عمران”
- Romanian: “‘Amran”
- Romanian: “’Amran”
- Russian: “Амран”
- Scots: “‘Amran”
- Scots: “’Amran”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amran”
- Somali: “Camraan”
- Spanish: “Amrán”
- Swahili: “Amrani”
- Tajik: “Амрон”
- Tatar: “Амран”
- Thai: “อัมรอน”
- Turkish: “Amran”
- Ukrainian: “Амран”
- Urdu: “عمران، یمن”
- Urdu: “عمران”
- Uzbek: “Amron”
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