North Africa
Libya
Marj District

Al Marj

Marj, El Merj in Benghazi and Egyptian Arabic, is a city in northeastern and the administrative seat of the . It lies in an upland valley separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a range of hills, part of the Jebel Akhdar Mountains, and is generally believed to be the site of the ancient city of Barca.
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  • Type: City with 90,700 residents
  • Description: city in Libya
  • Also known as: “Campament Al Marj”, “Campament of Al Marj”, “Kammpament Al Merj”, and “Marj”

Al Marj

Latitude
32.4853° or 32° 29′ 7″ north
Longitude
20.8327° or 20° 49′ 58″ east
Population
90,700
Elevation
338 metres (1,109 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LY QEC
Open location code
8G42FRPM+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1159112554
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
88903
Wiki­data ID
Q427646
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Al Marj” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المرج‎‎”
  • Arabic: “المرج”
  • Arabic: “شعبية المرج”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Մարջ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl Məric”
  • Belarusian: “Аль-Мардж”
  • Belarusian: “Мардж”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Мардж”
  • Bengali: “মারজ”
  • Catalan: “Al Marj”
  • Cebuano: “Al Marj”
  • Chinese: “迈尔季”
  • Czech: “Barka”
  • Czech: “Mardž”
  • Czech: “Márdž”
  • Danish: “Marj”
  • Dutch: “Marj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المرج”
  • Esperanto: “Al Marĝ”
  • Finnish: “Marj”
  • French: “Al Marj”
  • Georgian: “ელ-მარჯი”
  • German: “Al Marj”
  • German: “Al-Mardsch”
  • German: “El Merdj”
  • Greek: “Μάρτζ”
  • Gujarati: “માર્જ”
  • Hindi: “मर्ज”
  • Indonesian: “Marj”
  • Italian: “Al-Marj”
  • Italian: “Barce”
  • Italian: “El Merg”
  • Japanese: “マルジュ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಜ್”
  • Korean: “마르즈”
  • Korean: “마르지”
  • Latvian: “Mardža”
  • Lithuanian: “Al Marj”
  • Lithuanian: “Mardža”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Al Marj”
  • Malay: “Marj”
  • Marathi: “मर्ज”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marj”
  • Persian: “مرج، لیبی”
  • Persian: “مرج”
  • Polish: “Al Marj”
  • Polish: “Al-Mardż”
  • Portuguese: “Al Marj”
  • Portuguese: “Marje”
  • Romanian: “Al Marj”
  • Russian: “Аль-Мардж”
  • Russian: “Эль-Мардж”
  • Sardinian: “Al Marj”
  • Sardinian: “El Merj”
  • Scots: “Al Marj”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mardž”
  • Sinhala: “මාර්ජ්”
  • Slovenian: “Al Mardž”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرج”
  • Spanish: “Al Marj”
  • Swahili: “Marj”
  • Swedish: “Al-Marj”
  • Swedish: “Marj”
  • Tamil: “மார்ஜ்”
  • Telugu: “మర్జ్”
  • Thai: “มอร์เฒ”
  • Turkish: “Marj”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Мардж”
  • Urdu: “مرج”
  • Vietnamese: “Al Marj”
  • Vietnamese: “Marj”
  • Volapük: “Märc”
  • Volapük: “Märciän”
  • Zulu: “Marj”

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