Khôr ʽAngar
Khôr ʽAngar is a town in the northern Obock Region of Djibouti, situated on the west coast of the Bab el Mandeb Strait. The town is served by Herkale Airport, a desert airstrip 7 kilometres northwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,500 residents
- Description: town in Obock, Djibouti
- Also known as: “Angarou”, “Angârou”, “Anghar”, “Khôr ‘Angar”, “Khor Angar”, “Khor-Anghar”, and “Poste d’Anghor”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fagal and Ras Siyyan.
Fagal
Village
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Fagal is a coastal location in eastern Djibouti. It lies north of Obock. It lies along the N15 road, connected to the Eritrean border at Rahayta to the north. Fagal is situated 9 km northwest of Khôr ʽAngar.
Ras Siyyan
Locality
Ras Siyyan or Ras Siyan is a peninsula in the Obock Region of Djibouti, on the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, about 20 km southwest of Perim Island. The peninsula consists of a reddish volcanic hill about 1.2 by 0.5 km and 138 m high, connected towards to the mainland by a low sandy strip that stretches south by about 5 km while widening from 500 to 800 m. Ras Siyyan is situated 10 km north of Khôr ʽAngar.
Khôr ʽAngar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Obock Region, Djibouti, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.38686° or 12° 23′ 13″ northLongitude
43.3345° or 43° 20′ 4″ eastPopulation
3,500Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
7H4598PM+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2164655828OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
222171Wikidata ID
Q3120866
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Khôr ʽAngar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خور أنغار”
- Arabic: “خور عنجر”
- Cebuano: “Khôr Angar”
- Danish: “Khor Angar”
- Dutch: “Khôr ‘Angar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خور عنجر”
- Estonian: “Khor Angar”
- Finnish: “Khor Angar”
- French: “khor Angar village”
- French: “Khor Angar”
- German: “Khôr ‘Angar”
- Japanese: “コール・アンガー”
- Persian: “خور آنگار”
- Polish: “Khor Angar”
- Russian: “Хор-Ангар”
- South Azerbaijani: “خور آنقار”
- Swedish: “Khor Angar”
- Turkish: “‘Khor Angar”
- Turkish: “Khor ‘Angar”
- Turkish: “Khor Angar”
- Urdu: “کہور آنگار”
- Vietnamese: “Khôr ʽAngar”
- Zulu: “Khôr Angar”
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