Karak
Karak is one of the governorates of Jordan, located south-west of Amman, Jordan's capital. Its capital is Al-Karak. It is bordered by Madaba and the Capital governorates to the north, Ma'an Governorate to the east, Tafilah Governorate to the south, and the Dead Sea to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: State with 207,000 residents
- Description: governorate of Jordan
- Also known as: “District of Karak”, “El Kerak”, “Governorate of Kerak”, “Karak Governorate”, “Liwā’ al Karak”, and “Muḩāfaz̧at al Karak”
Karak
- Categories: governorate of Jordan and locality
- Location: Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.1405° or 31° 8′ 26″ northLongitude
35.8147° or 35° 48′ 53″ eastPopulation
207,000Elevation
966 metres (3,169 feet)Open location code
8G3Q4RR7+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 13294463858OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
250625Wikidata ID
Q735245
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Karak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكرك”
- Arabic: “محافظة الكرك”
- Armenian: “Քարաքի մարզ”
- Basque: “Karak Gobernazioa”
- Basque: “Karak”
- Basque: “Kerak Gobernazioa”
- Belarusian: “Карак”
- Bengali: “কারাক গভর্নোরেট”
- Catalan: “governació de Karak”
- Catalan: “Governació de Karak”
- Cebuano: “Al Karak”
- Chinese: “Karak Séng”
- Chinese: “卡拉克省”
- Danish: “Kerak”
- Dutch: “Karak”
- Dutch: “Kerak”
- Esperanto: “Karako”
- Finnish: “Al Karak”
- French: “Gouvernorat de Karak”
- French: “Karak”
- German: “Gouvernement al-Karak”
- German: “Gouvernement Karak”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Καράκ”
- Gujarati: “કરાક ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hebrew: “כרכ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז כרכ”
- Hindi: “करक गवर्नरेट”
- Hindi: “करक प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Karak kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Karak”
- Italian: “governatorato di al-Karak”
- Italian: “Governatorato di al-Karak”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Kerak”
- Japanese: “カラク県”
- Kannada: “ಕರಾಕ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “카라크주”
- Latvian: “Kerākas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Karako muchafaza”
- Lithuanian: “Karako muhafaza”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Karak”
- Marathi: “कराक गव्हर्नोरेट”
- Mazanderani: “کرک استان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karak Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Al-Karak (Guwernement)”
- Northern Frisian: “Al-Karak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karak Governorate”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karak guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Karak”
- Norwegian: “Kerak”
- Persian: “استان کرک”
- Persian: “کرک”
- Persian: “کَرَک”
- Persian: “کِرَک”
- Polish: “Al-Karak”
- Polish: “Karak”
- Portuguese: “Caraque”
- Portuguese: “Karak”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Karak”
- Russian: “Эль-Карак”
- Scots: “Karak Govrenorate”
- Sinhala: “කරක් පළාත”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Al Karak”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Al Karak”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de Karak”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Karak”
- Swedish: “al-Karak”
- Swedish: “Al-Karak”
- Swedish: “Karak”
- Swedish: “Kerak”
- Tamil: “கரக் கோவெர்னோரேட்”
- Telugu: “కార్డక్ గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าราชการอัลกะร็อก”
- Turkish: “Karak Yönetimi”
- Turkish: “Kerek”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Карак”
- Ukrainian: “Карак”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Ель-Карак”
- Urdu: “محافظہ کرک”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Karak”
- Welsh: “Ardal Lywodraethol Karak”
- Western Armenian: “Քարաքի մարզ”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کرک(اردن)”
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