Kish
Kish is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate, located 80 km south of Baghdad and 12 km east of the ancient city of Babylon. The Ubaid period site of Ras al-Amiyah is 8 km away.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Sumerian city
- Also known as: “assentament sumeri a l’Iraq”, “Kish (Iraque)”, “Kish (Mesopotâmia)”, “Kish (Sumer)”, “Tell Uheimir”, “Кіш (Шумер)”, “تل الأحيمر”, and “كيشاتو”
Kish
- Categories: ancient city, city-state, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Mahawil District, Babil Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.54001° or 32° 32′ 24″ north
Longitude
44.60446° or 44° 36′ 16″ east
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Open location code
8H46GJR3+2Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Kish” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kisj”
- Amharic: “ኪሽ”
- Arabic: “كيش”
- Armenian: “Քիշ (Շումեր)”
- Armenian: “Քիշ”
- Asturian: “Kish”
- Azerbaijani: “Kiş”
- Bashkir: “Киш”
- Basque: “Kish”
- Belarusian: “Кіш”
- Bosnian: “Kish”
- Bulgarian: “Киш”
- Burmese: “ကစ်ရှမြို့”
- Catalan: “Kiš”
- Catalan: “Kix”
- Cebuano: “Kīsh”
- Central Kurdish: “کیش”
- Chinese: “基什”
- Chuvash: “Киш”
- Croatian: “Kiš (Sumer)”
- Croatian: “Kiš”
- Croatian: “Kish”
- Czech: “Kiš”
- Danish: “Kish”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kiş”
- Dutch: “Kiš”
- Dutch: “Kish”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيش”
- Esperanto: “Kiŝ”
- Finnish: “Kiš”
- French: “Kish”
- Galician: “Kish”
- Georgian: “ქიში”
- German: “Kiš”
- German: “Kisch”
- Hebrew: “כיש”
- Hindi: “किश”
- Hungarian: “Kis”
- Indonesian: “Kiš”
- Irish: “Kish”
- Italian: “Kish”
- Japanese: “キシュ”
- Korean: “키시”
- Kurdish: “Kîş”
- Lithuanian: “Kišas”
- Mingrelian: “ქიში”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kisj”
- Norwegian: “Kisj”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kish”
- Persian: “کیش”
- Polish: “Kisz”
- Portuguese: “Kish”
- Portuguese: “Quis”
- Romanian: “Kiș”
- Russian: “Киш”
- Scots: “Kish”
- Serbian: “Киш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kiš”
- Sinhala: “කිෂ්”
- Slovak: “Kiš”
- Slovenian: “Kiš”
- Spanish: “Kish”
- Swedish: “Kish”
- Tagalog: “Kish (Sumerya)”
- Tagalog: “Kish”
- Tamil: “கிஷ், சுமேரியா”
- Turkish: “Kiş”
- Ukrainian: “Кіш”
- Uzbek: “Kish”
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