Iraq
Basra Governorate
Al-Zubair District

Safwan

Safwan is a town in southeast on the border with . It was the site of the Safwan Air Base.
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  • Type: Town with 70,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Şafwān”, “Safwan, Iraq”, “Safwan, سفوان”, and “Sufwan”

Safwan

Latitude
30.11587° or 30° 6′ 57″ north
Longitude
47.716° or 47° 42′ 58″ east
Population
70,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ SAF
Open location code
8H294P88+89
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2487919084
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
91772
Wiki­data ID
Q2669409
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Safwan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سفوان”
  • Arabic: “صفوان”
  • Bengali: “সাফওয়ান”
  • Chinese: “萨夫万”
  • Danish: “Safwan”
  • Dutch: “Safwan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صفوان”
  • Finnish: “Safwan”
  • French: “Safwan”
  • German: “Safwan”
  • Greek: “Σαφγάν”
  • Gujarati: “સફવાન”
  • Hebrew: “ספוואן”
  • Hindi: “साफवान”
  • Indonesian: “Safwan”
  • Irish: “Safwan”
  • Italian: “Safwan”
  • Japanese: “サフワーン”
  • Kannada: “ಸಫ್ವಾನ್”
  • Korean: “사판”
  • Latvian: “Sofvana”
  • Lithuanian: “Sofvanas”
  • Malay: “Safwan”
  • Marathi: “सफवान”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Safwan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Safwan”
  • Polish: “Safwan”
  • Russian: “Сафван”
  • Sinhala: “සෆ්වාන්”
  • Spanish: “Safwan”
  • Swedish: “Safwan”
  • Tamil: “சாப்வான்”
  • Telugu: “సాఫ్ వాన్”
  • Thai: “ซาฟวาน”
  • Turkish: “Safwa”
  • Ukrainian: “Сафван”
  • Urdu: “صفوان”
  • Vietnamese: “Safwan”

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