Kufa
Kufa, also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about 170 kilometres south of Baghdad, and 10 kilometres northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River.
- Type: City with 230,000 residents
- Description: city in Iraq
- Also known as: “Al Kufa”, “Al Kūfa”, “Al Kufa - الكوفة”, “al-Kūfa”, and “Qaḑā’ al Kūfah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al-Sahlah Mosque.
Al-Sahlah Mosque
Mosque
The Al-Sahlah Mosque is a Twelver Shia mosque and shrine, located in the city of Kufa, in the Najaf Governorate of Iraq. The mosque is a holy site in Shia Islam, 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
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kufa District, Najaf, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Kufa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kufe”
- Arabic: “الكوفة”
- Armenian: “ալ-Քուֆա”
- Armenian: “Կուֆա”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಕೂಫಾ”
- Kashmiri: “کوفَہ”
- Kazakh: “Куфа”
- Korean: “쿠파”
- Kurdish: “Kufe”
- Kurdish: “Kûfe”
- Latin: “Cufa”
- 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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