Iraq
Najaf Governorate
Kufa District

Kufa

Kufa, also spelled Kufah, is a city in , about 170 kilometres south of , and 10 kilometres northeast of . It is located on the banks of the .
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  • Type: City with 230,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraq, about 170 kilometres (110 mi) south of Baghdad, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Najaf.
  • Also known as: “Al Kufa”, “Al Kūfa”, “Al Kufa - الكوفة”, “al-Kūfa”, and “Qaḑā’ al Kūfah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Sahlah Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: Zygoptera, CC0.
The is a Twelver Shi'ite and shrine, located in the city of Kufa, in the of . The mosque is of great importance to Twelver Shia Muslims, and it is believed that the mosque was initially established in Kufa as a neighborhood mosque for the followers of Ali, the early members of the Shia.

Kufa

Latitude
32.0344° or 32° 2′ 4″ north
Longitude
44.4031° or 44° 24′ 11″ east
Population
230,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ KFA
Open location code
8H462CM3+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 348089814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
99135
Wiki­data ID
Q186234
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Kufa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kufe”
  • Arabic: “الكوفة”
  • Armenian: “ալ-Քուֆա”
  • Asturian: “Kufa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kufə”
  • Bashkir: “Әл-Күфә”
  • Basque: “Kufa”
  • Belarusian: “Куфа”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Куфа”
  • Bengali: “কুফা”
  • Bosnian: “Kufa”
  • Bulgarian: “Куфа”
  • Catalan: “Kufa”
  • Cebuano: “Kufa”
  • Central Kurdish: “کووفە”
  • Chechen: “Куфат”
  • Chinese: “库法”
  • Chinese: “库费”
  • Chinese: “庫費”
  • Czech: “Kúfa”
  • Danish: “Al Kufah”
  • Danish: “Kufa”
  • Danish: “Kufah”
  • Dhivehi: “ކޫފާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kufa”
  • Dutch: “Koefa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الكوفه”
  • Esperanto: “Kufa”
  • Estonian: “Al-Kufah”
  • Estonian: “Al-Kūfah”
  • Estonian: “Kufa”
  • Estonian: “Kufah”
  • Finnish: “Kufa”
  • Finnish: “Kuufa”
  • French: “Al-Kufa”
  • French: “Koufa”
  • French: “Kufa”
  • French: “Kûfa”
  • Georgian: “კუფა”
  • Georgian: “ქუფა”
  • German: “Al Kufa”
  • German: “Al-Kûfa”
  • German: “Al-Kūfah”
  • German: “Kufa”
  • Greek: “Κούφα”
  • Gujarati: “કુફા”
  • Hausa: “Kufa”
  • Hebrew: “כופא”
  • Hebrew: “כופה”
  • Hindi: “कूफ़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Kúfa”
  • Indonesian: “Kufah”
  • Irish: “Kufa”
  • Italian: “Kufa”
  • Japanese: “Kūfa”
  • Japanese: “クーファ”
  • Javanese: “Kufah”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಫಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “کوفَہ”
  • Kazakh: “Куфа”
  • Korean: “쿠파”
  • Kurdish: “Kufe”
  • Kurdish: “Kûfe”
  • Latin: “Kufa”
  • Latvian: “Kufa”
  • Latvian: “Kūfa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kufa”
  • Lombard: “Kufa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kufa”
  • Malay: “Kufah”
  • Malayalam: “കൂഫ”
  • Marathi: “कुफा”
  • Mazanderani: “کوفه”
  • Nepali: “कुफा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kufa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kufa”
  • Norwegian: “Kufa”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡊࡅࡐࡀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੂਫ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “كوفه”
  • Persian: “کوفه”
  • Polish: “Al Kufa”
  • Polish: “Al-Kufa”
  • Portuguese: “Cufa”
  • Portuguese: “Kufa”
  • Romanian: “Kufa”
  • Russian: “аль-Куфа”
  • Russian: “Куфа”
  • Russian: “Эль-Куфа”
  • Scots: “Kufa”
  • Scots: “الكوفة”
  • Serbian: “Kufa”
  • Serbian: “Куфа”
  • Serbian: “كوفة”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kufa”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوفو”
  • Sinhala: “කුෆා”
  • Slovenian: “Kufa”
  • Somali: “Kuufa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوفه”
  • Spanish: “Al-Kufa”
  • Spanish: “al-Kūfa”
  • Spanish: “Kufa”
  • Sundanese: “Kufah”
  • Swahili: “Kufa”
  • Swahili: “Kufah”
  • Swedish: “Kofa”
  • Swedish: “Kufa”
  • Tajik: “Куфа”
  • Tajik: “Кӯфа”
  • Tamil: “குபா”
  • Tamil: “கூபா, ஈராக்”
  • Tatar: “Күфә”
  • Telugu: “కూఫా”
  • Thai: “คูฟาฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Kufa”
  • Turkish: “Kufe”
  • Turkish: “Kûfe”
  • Turkish: “Küfe”
  • Uighur: “كۇفە”
  • Uighur: “كۇڧە”
  • Ukrainian: “Куфа”
  • Urdu: “کوفہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kufa”
  • Venetian: “Kufa”
  • Vietnamese: “Kufa”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوفا”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوفہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “库法”

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