Al Marj
Marj, El Merj in Benghazi Arabic, is a city in northeastern Libya and the administrative seat of the Marj District. 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.
- City with about 57,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 330 metres (1,090 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Barce”
- Description: city in Libya
- Also known as“encampment of Al Marj”“Kammpament Al Merj”“Marj”“ⵍⵎⵔⵊ”“ⵍⵎⵔⵊ المرج Marj”
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Latitude
32.4853° or 32° 29′ 7″ north
Longitude
20.8327° or 20° 49′ 58″ east
UN/LOCODE
LY QEC
Open location code
8G42FRPM+43
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Al Marj” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኣል ማርጅ”
- Arabic: “المرج”
- Arabic: “شعبية المرج”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Մարջ”
- Asturian: “encampment of Al Marj”
- Azerbaijani: “Al Marj”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl Məric”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Мардж”
- Belarusian: “Мардж”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Мардж”
- Bengali: “আল মার্জ”
- Bengali: “মারজ”
- Catalan: “Al Marj”
- Cebuano: “Al Marj”
- Chinese: “迈尔季”
- Czech: “Barka”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Al Marj”
- Hindi: “अल मर्ज”
- Hindi: “मर्ज”
- Indonesian: “Al Marj”
- Indonesian: “Marj”
- Italian: “Al-Marj”
- Italian: “Barce”
- Italian: “El Merg”
- Japanese: “アル・マルジ”
- Japanese: “マルジュ”
- Javanese: “Al Marj”
- Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಜ್”
- Kazakh: “Әл-Марж”
- Kirghiz: “Әл-Марж”
- Korean: “마르즈”
- Korean: “마르지”
- Latvian: “Mardža”
- Lithuanian: “Al Marj”
- Lithuanian: “Mardža”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Al Marj”
- Malay: “Al Marj”
- Malay: “Marj”
- Marathi: “मर्ज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marj”
- Oromo: “Al Marj”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਮਾਰਜ”
- Persian: “المرج”
- Persian: “مرج، لیبی”
- Persian: “مرج”
- Polish: “Al Marj”
- Polish: “Al-Mardż”
- Portuguese: “Al Marj”
- Portuguese: “Marje”
- Pushto: “المرج”
- 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”
- Somali: “Al Marj”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرج”
- Spanish: “Al Marj”
- Swahili: “Al Marj”
- Swahili: “Marj”
- Swedish: “Al-Marj”
- Swedish: “Marj”
- Tajik: “Эль-Марж”
- Tamil: “மார்ஜ்”
- Tatar: “Әл-Марж”
- Telugu: “మర్జ్”
- Thai: “มอร์เฒ”
- Turkish: “El Marj”
- Turkish: “Marj”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Мардж”
- Urdu: “المرج”
- Urdu: “مرج”
- Uzbek: “Al Marj”
- Vietnamese: “Al Marj”
- Vietnamese: “Marj”
- Volapük: “Märc”
- Volapük: “Märciän”
- Zulu: “Marj”
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