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Maysan Governorate

Maysan Governorate is a governorate in southeastern , bordering . Its administrative centre is the city of , and it is composed of six districts. Before 1976, it was named Amara Province.
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  • Type: State with 971,000 residents
  • Description: governorate of Iraq
  • Also known as: “Maysan”
  • Historically known as: “Amarah Province”

Maysan Governorate

Latitude
32.0183° or 32° 1′ 6″ north
Longitude
47.0696° or 47° 4′ 11″ east
Population
971,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
8H492399+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2914855224
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
93540
Wiki­data ID
Q213170
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Maysan Governorate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محافظة العمارة”
  • Arabic: “محافظة ميسان”
  • Arabic: “ميسان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maysan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meysan mühafəzəsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meysan”
  • Basque: “Maysan probintzia”
  • Basque: “Maysango probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Майсан (мухафаза)”
  • Belarusian: “Майсан”
  • Belarusian: “мухафаза Майсан”
  • Bengali: “মায়সান গভর্নোরেট”
  • Bengali: “মায়সান প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Майсан”
  • Catalan: “Maysan”
  • Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at Maysān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای میسان”
  • Chinese: “Maysan Séng”
  • Chinese: “米桑省”
  • Chinese: “美山省”
  • Croatian: “Guvernat Majsan”
  • Czech: “Guvernorát Majsán”
  • Czech: “Majsán”
  • Danish: “Maysan”
  • Dutch: “Maysan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميسان”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Majsan”
  • Estonian: “Maysan”
  • Estonian: “Maysān”
  • Estonian: “Maysani kubernerkond”
  • Estonian: “Maysāni kubernerkond”
  • Estonian: “Mīsān”
  • Finnish: “Maysan”
  • Finnish: “Missan”
  • French: “Maysan”
  • French: “Missane”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Maisan”
  • Georgian: “მაისანის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “Gouvernement Maisan”
  • German: “IQ-MA”
  • German: “Maisan”
  • German: “Provinz Maisan”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο Μαϊσάν”
  • Greek: “Μαϊσάν”
  • Greek: “Μέισαν”
  • Gujarati: “મેસન ગવર્નોરેટ”
  • Hebrew: “מיסאן”
  • Hindi: “मयसान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “मयसैन गवर्नरेट”
  • Hungarian: “Mejszán kormányzóság”
  • Indonesian: “Governorat Maisan”
  • Indonesian: “Governorat maysan”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Maysan”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Mayasan”
  • Italian: “governatorato di Maysan”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Maysan”
  • Japanese: “マイサーン”
  • Japanese: “マイサーン県”
  • Japanese: “マイサン県”
  • Kannada: “ಮೇಸಾನ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
  • Korean: “마이산주”
  • Kurdish: “Meysan”
  • Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Meysan”
  • Kurdish: “مەیسان”
  • Latvian: “Meisānas muhāfaza”
  • Lithuanian: “Maisano gubernija”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Maysan”
  • Marathi: “मेसन प्रशासकीय”
  • Mazanderani: “میسان اوستان”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “محافظة العمارة”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “محافظة ميسان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maysan Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maysan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maysan guvernement”
  • Norwegian: “Maysan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܡܝܫܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܝܣܐܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܝܫܢ”
  • Persian: “استان میسان”
  • Polish: “Majsan”
  • Portuguese: “Maysan”
  • Portuguese: “Mesena”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Maysan”
  • Russian: “Майсан”
  • Scots: “Maysan Govrenorate”
  • Scots: “Maysan Province”
  • Serbian: “Мајсан”
  • Sinhala: “මේසන් පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Majsán”
  • Slovenian: “Guvernat Majsan”
  • Slovenian: “IQ-MA”
  • Slovenian: “Majsan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میسان اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Mesena”
  • Spanish: “Maysan”
  • Spanish: “Mesena”
  • Swedish: “Maisan”
  • Swedish: “Maysan”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Majson”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Майсон”
  • Tamil: “மேசான் கவர்னரேட்”
  • Tamil: “மேசான் மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “మేసాన్ గవర్నరేట్”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการมัยซาน”
  • Turkish: “Meysan ili”
  • Turkish: “Meysan”
  • Ukrainian: “Майсан”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ میسان”
  • Uzbek: “Mayson muhofazasi”
  • Uzbek: “Mayson muhofazoti”
  • Venetian: “goernatorà de Maysan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Maysan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maysan (gobernador)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maysan”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ میسان”
  • Yue Chinese: “美山省”

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