Al-Faw
Al-Fāw is a port town on Al-Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf. The Al Faw Peninsula is part of the Basra Governorate. Al-Faw is located about 100 kilometers from the provincial capital, Basra, and has a population of approximately 52,000 people.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Town with 105,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 2 metres (7 feet)
- Description: port town on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq
- Also known as“Fao”“Fao Terminal”“Fava”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arvandkenar.
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Al-Faw
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Latitude
29.9744° or 29° 58′ 28″ north
Longitude
48.4718° or 48° 28′ 19″ east
UN/LOCODE
IQ FAO
Open location code
7HXCXFFC+QP
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al-Faw” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الفاو”
- Arabic: “قضاء الفاو”
- Bengali: “আল-ফাও”
- Catalan: “Al-Fao”
- Catalan: “Al-Faw”
- Catalan: “Fao”
- Cebuano: “Al Fāw”
- Central Kurdish: “فاو”
- Chinese: “法奥”
- Chinese: “法奧”
- Czech: “Fao”
- Danish: “Al-Faw”
- Dutch: “Al-Faw”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفاو”
- Esperanto: “Fao”
- Estonian: “Al-Faw”
- Estonian: “Al-Fāw”
- Estonian: “Faw”
- Finnish: “Al-Faw”
- French: “Al-Fau”
- French: “Fao”
- German: “Al Faw”
- German: “Fao”
- German: “Faw”
- Greek: “Αλ-Φο”
- Gujarati: “અલ-ફો”
- Hausa: “Al-Faw”
- Hebrew: “אל-פאו”
- Hindi: “अल-फ़ॉ”
- Hungarian: “Al-Fao”
- Hungarian: “Al-Fau”
- Hungarian: “Fao (település)”
- Hungarian: “Fao”
- Hungarian: “Faó”
- Hungarian: “Fau”
- Indonesian: “Al-Faw”
- Irish: “Al-Faw”
- Italian: “Al-Faw”
- Japanese: “アル＝ファオ”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್-ಫಾ”
- Korean: “알파우”
- Kurdish: “Faw”
- Latvian: “Fao”
- Lithuanian: “Al-Fou”
- Malay: “Al-Faw”
- Marathi: “अल-फॉ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Faw”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Faw”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Faw”
- Norwegian: “Al-Faw”
- Persian: “الفاو”
- Persian: “فاو”
- Polish: “Al-Fau”
- Portuguese: “Al-Faw”
- Russian: “Аль-Фау”
- Russian: “Эль-Фао”
- Sinhala: “අල් ෆාවෝ”
- Spanish: “Al-Fao”
- Spanish: “Fao”
- Swedish: “Al Faw”
- Swedish: “Al Fāw”
- Tamil: “அல்-பாவ்”
- Telugu: “అల్-ఫ”
- Thai: “อัล ฟา”
- Turkish: “El-Fao”
- Turkish: “El-Fav”
- Turkish: “Fav”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Фао”
- Urdu: “ال-فاو”
- Urdu: “الفاو”
- Uzbek: “Al-Fav”
- Venetian: “Al-Faw”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Faw”
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