Al Marj

Marj, pronounced El Merj in Benghazi Arabic, is a district of northeastern on the Mediterranean Sea coast. Its administrative seat is the city of Marj, which is generally believed to be the site of the ancient and medieval city of Barca.
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  • Type: district of Libya with 85,300 residents
  • Description: administrative division of northeastern Libya
  • Also known as: “Al Maraj”, “Al Marĵ”, “Al-Mardsch”, “Baladīyat al Marj”, “LY-MJ”, “Marj District”, “Muḩāfaz̧at al Marj”, “Municipalità di Al Marj”, “Municipalità di Barce”, “Sha‘bīyat al Maraj”, “Sha‘bīyat al Marj”, “ელ-მარჯი”, “მარჯის რაიონი”, “المرج|”, “شعبيه المرج”, “مرج”, “مرج، لیبی”, and “알 마르즈 주”

Al Marj

Latitude
31.7833° or 31° 47′ north
Longitude
21.2° or 21° 12′ east
Population
85,300
Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)
Open location code
8G33Q5MX+8X
Geo­Names ID
88904
Wiki­data ID
Q26023
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Al Marj” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አል ማርጅ”
  • Arabic: “المرج”
  • Arabic: “شعبية المرج”
  • Arabic: “محافظة المرج”
  • Azerbaijani: “Al-Marj”
  • Basque: “Al Marj”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Мардж (муніцыпалітэт)”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Мардж”
  • Bengali: “আল মার্জ”
  • Bengali: “মার্জ জেলা”
  • Catalan: “Al Marj”
  • Cebuano: “Al Marj”
  • Chinese: “迈尔季省”
  • Chinese: “邁爾季省”
  • Danish: “Al Marj”
  • Dutch: “Al Marj”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Al Marĝ”
  • Finnish: “Marjin kaupunginosa”
  • French: “Al Marj”
  • Georgian: “ელ-მარჯის რაიონი”
  • German: “Al Marj”
  • German: “Munizip al-Mardsch”
  • Greek: “Μάρτζ”
  • Gujarati: “માર્જ જિલ્લો”
  • Hausa: “Al Marj”
  • Hindi: “मारज जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Mardzs tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Marj”
  • Italian: “distretto di al-Marj”
  • Italian: “Distretto di al-Marj”
  • Japanese: “アル・マルジ”
  • Japanese: “マルジュ県”
  • Javanese: “Al Marj”
  • Kannada: “ಮರ್ಜ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Аль-Марж”
  • Kirghiz: “Аль-Март”
  • Korean: “마르지주”
  • Korean: “알마르즈 주”
  • Latvian: “Mardžas šebīja”
  • Lithuanian: “Mardžo savivaldybė”
  • Malay: “Al Marj”
  • Malay: “Daerah Marj”
  • Marathi: “मर्ज जिल्हा”
  • Mazanderani: “مرج اوستان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Marj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Marj”
  • Norwegian: “Al Marj”
  • Oromo: “Al Marj”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਮਾਰਜ”
  • Persian: “استان مرج”
  • Persian: “المرج”
  • Polish: “Al-Mardż”
  • Portuguese: “Al Marj”
  • Portuguese: “Marje”
  • Pushto: “المرج”
  • Romanian: “Districtul Al Marj”
  • Russian: “Эль-Мардж”
  • Scots: “Al Marj Destrict”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mardž (okrug)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mardž”
  • Sinhala: “මාර්ජ් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “Al Mardž”
  • Somali: “Al Marj”
  • Spanish: “Al Marj”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Al Marj”
  • Swahili: “Al Marj”
  • Swedish: “al-Marj”
  • Swedish: “Al-Marj”
  • Tajik: “Аль-Марҷ”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Ал Марҷ”
  • Tamil: “மெர்ஜ் மாவட்டம்”
  • Tatar: “Аль-Марж”
  • Telugu: “మార్జ్ జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตมาร์จ”
  • Tumbuka: “Al Marj”
  • Turkish: “Meriç”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Мардж”
  • Urdu: “مرج ضلع”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Marj”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Marj”
  • Volapük: “Märciän”
  • Zulu: “Marj District”

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