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Al Mahrah Governorate

Al Mahrah, or simply Mahra, is a governorate of in the southern part of the . Situated in the area of the former Mahra Sultanate, its capital is . It has international borders with .
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  • Type: State with 88,600 residents
  • Description: governorate of Yemen bounded on its southern coast by the Guardafui Channel
  • Also known as: “Al Ghaydah”, “Al Ghayḑah”, “Al Mahrah”, “Al Muhafazah as Sadisah”, “Al Muḩāfaz̧ah as Sādisah”, “Governorate Number Six”, “Muhafazat al Ghaydah”, “Muḩāfaz̧at al Ghayḑah”, “Muḩāfaz̧at al Mahrah”, “Sixth Governorate”, and “VI”
  • Neighbors:

Al Mahrah Governorate

Latitude
17° north
Longitude
51.5° or 51° 30′ east
Population
88,600
Elevation
957 metres (3,140 feet)
Open location code
7H9H2G22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 663081631
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
78985
Wiki­data ID
Q275752
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Al Mahrah Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المهرة”
  • Arabic: “محافظة المهرة”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Məhra mühafəzəsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Məhrə mühafəzəsi”
  • Basque: “Al Mahrah gobernantzia”
  • Bengali: “আল মাহরাহ গভর্নোরেট”
  • Bulgarian: “Ал Махра”
  • Bulgarian: “Махра”
  • Catalan: “Governació d’al-Mahra”
  • Cebuano: “Al Mahrah”
  • Chinese: “Al Mahrah Séng”
  • Chinese: “迈赫拉省”
  • Chinese: “邁赫拉省”
  • Chinese: “麥赫拉省”
  • Croatian: “Al Mahra”
  • Croatian: “Al-Mahra”
  • Czech: “provincie al-Mahra”
  • Danish: “Al Mahrah Governorate”
  • Dutch: “Al Mahrah”
  • Esperanto: “Al Ghajda”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Al Mahra”
  • Finnish: “Mahra”
  • French: “Al Mahra”
  • French: “Mahra”
  • Georgian: “ელ-მაჰრა”
  • Georgian: “ელ-მაჰრის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “al-Mahra”
  • German: “al-Mahrah”
  • German: “Gouvernement al-Mahra”
  • German: “Mahrah”
  • German: “YE-MR”
  • Greek: “Αλ Μαχράχ”
  • Gujarati: “અલ મહ્રાહ ગવર્નોરેટ”
  • Hebrew: “אל-מהרה”
  • Hindi: “अल महरह गवर्नरेट”
  • Hindi: “अल-महराह प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “El-Mahra”
  • Hungarian: “Mahra kormányzóság”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Al-Mahrah”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Al Mahrah”
  • Italian: “governatorato di al-Mahra”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di al-Mahra”
  • Japanese: “マフラ県”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ಮಹ್ರಾ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
  • Korean: “마라주”
  • Latvian: “Mahras muhāfaza”
  • Lithuanian: “Al Machros gubernija”
  • Malay: “Al Mahrah Governorate”
  • Malay: “Kegabenoran Al Mahrah”
  • Malayalam: “അൽ മഹ്രഹ് സംസ്ഥാനം”
  • Marathi: “अल माहह गव्हर्नोरेट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Al Mahrah Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Mahrah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Mahrah guvernement”
  • Norwegian: “Al-Mahrah”
  • Persian: “استان مهره”
  • Persian: “استان مَهره”
  • Persian: “مهره”
  • Polish: “Al-Mahra”
  • Portuguese: “Al Mahra”
  • Portuguese: “Al Mahrah”
  • Portuguese: “Mahra”
  • Portuguese: “Mara”
  • Romanian: “Guvernoratul Al Mahrah”
  • Russian: “Махра”
  • Russian: “Эль-Махра”
  • Scots: “Al Mahra Govrenorate”
  • Scots: “Al Mahrah Govrenorate”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al Mahra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Mahra”
  • Sinhala: “අල් මරා පළාත”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مهره اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Gobernacion de Al Mahrah”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Al Mahrah”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Al Mahrah”
  • Swedish: “al-Mahra”
  • Swedish: “Al-Mahra”
  • Swedish: “Al-Mahrah”
  • Swedish: “Muhafazat al-Mahra”
  • Tamil: “அல் மஹரஹ கோவெர்னோரே”
  • Telugu: “అంల్ మహారాహ్ గవర్నరేట్”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการอัลมะฮ์เราะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “El Mahra ili”
  • Turkish: “El-Mehra”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Махра”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ المہرہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Al Mahrah”
  • Wu Chinese: “迈赫拉省”

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