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Basra Governorate

The Basra Governorate, also called Basra Province, is a governorate in southern bordering to the south and to the east. The capital is the city of , located in the .
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  • Type: State with 4,500,000 residents
  • Description: governorate in southern Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al Baṣra”, “Basra”, and “Basra Province”

Basra Governorate

Latitude
30.2021° or 30° 12′ 8″ north
Longitude
47.5274° or 47° 31′ 39″ east
Population
4,500,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Open location code
8H296G2G+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2914855216
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
89341
Wiki­data ID
Q193551
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Basra Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “البصرة”
  • Arabic: “محافظة البصرة”
  • Arabic: “محافظة البصرة|”
  • Arabic: “محافظه البصره”
  • Armenian: “Բասրա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəsrə Livası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəsrə mühafəzəsi”
  • Basque: “Basorako probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Басра”
  • Bengali: “বসরাহ গভর্নোরেট”
  • Bengali: “বাসরাহ প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Басра”
  • Catalan: “Governació de Basra”
  • Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at al Başrah”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەسڕە”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بەسرە”
  • Chinese: “Basra Séng”
  • Chinese: “巴士拉省”
  • Chinese: “巴斯拉省”
  • Croatian: “Guvernat Basra”
  • Czech: “Basra”
  • Czech: “Guvernorát Basra”
  • Czech: “Provincie Basra”
  • Danish: “Al Basrah”
  • Dutch: “Basra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البصره”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Basra”
  • Estonian: “Al-Basrah‘ kuberberkond”
  • Estonian: “Al-Başrah‘ kubernerkond”
  • Estonian: “Basra kubernerkond”
  • Finnish: “Basra”
  • French: “Al-Basra”
  • French: “Bassora”
  • Georgian: “ბასრის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “Basra”
  • German: “Gouvernement Basra”
  • German: “IQ-BA”
  • German: “Provinz Basra”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο Βασόρας”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο Μπάσρα”
  • Greek: “Μπάσρα”
  • Gujarati: “બસરા ગવર્નોરેટ”
  • Hebrew: “בצרה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז בצרה”
  • Hindi: “अल बसरा”
  • Hindi: “बसरा गवर्नरेट”
  • Hindi: “बसरा प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Baszra kormányzóság”
  • Indonesian: “Governorat Basra”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Basra”
  • Italian: “Bassora”
  • Italian: “governatorato di Bassora”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Bassora”
  • Japanese: “バスラ”
  • Japanese: “バスラ県”
  • Kannada: “ಬಸ್ರಾ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
  • Korean: “바스라주”
  • Kurdish: “Besre”
  • Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Besre”
  • Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Besreyê”
  • Kurdish: “بەسرە”
  • Latvian: “Basra”
  • Latvian: “Basras muhāfaza”
  • Lithuanian: “Basra”
  • Lithuanian: “Basros gubernija”
  • Macedonian: “Басра”
  • Malay: “Basra Governorate”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Basra”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Basrah”
  • Marathi: “बसरा गव्हर्नोरेट”
  • Mazanderani: “بصره اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Basra Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Basra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basra guvernement”
  • Norwegian: “Basra”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܨܪܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܒܨܪܐ”
  • Persian: “استان بصره”
  • Polish: “Basra”
  • Portuguese: “Baçorá”
  • Portuguese: “Basra”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Baçorá”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Basra”
  • Romanian: “Al-Basra”
  • Russian: “Басра”
  • Scots: “Basra Govrenorate”
  • Scots: “Basra Province”
  • Serbian: “Басра”
  • Sinhala: “බස්රා ගවනොරෙට්”
  • Sinhala: “බස්රා පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Al-Basra”
  • Slovenian: “Guvernat Basra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بصره اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Basora”
  • Spanish: “Gobernacion de Basora”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Basora”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Basora”
  • Swedish: “Basra”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Basra”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Басра”
  • Tamil: “பாஸ்ரா கவர்னரேட்”
  • Tamil: “பாஸ்ரா மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “బస్రా గవర్నరేట్”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการบัสรา”
  • Thai: “บาสรา”
  • Turkish: “Basra ili”
  • Turkish: “Basra İli”
  • Turkish: “Basra”
  • Ukrainian: “Басра”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ بصرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Basra muhofazasi”
  • Venetian: “goernatorà de Bassora”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Basra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Basra (gobernador)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Basra”
  • Welsh: “Basra”
  • Western Armenian: “Պասրա”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بصرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴士拉省”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴士拉省”

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