Barka
Barka is a coastal city and Wilayah in the Al Batinah South Governorate in northern Oman. Bordered by the Sea of Oman and the Hajar Mountains in southern Batinah, Barka is about a half-hour drive from As-Seeb and roughly an hour's drive from Al-Khuwair and Ruwi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lars Plougmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 130,000 residents
- Description: city of Oman
- Also known as: “Barka, Oman” and “Barkah”
Barka
- Categories: province of Oman and locality
- Location: Al Batinah South Governorate, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
23.6666° or 23° 39′ 60″ northLongitude
57.8821° or 57° 52′ 55″ eastPopulation
130,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)United Nations Location Code
OM BKKOpen location code
7HMVMV8J+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 2502423417OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Barka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بركاء”
- Arabic: “ولاية بركاء”
- Arabic: “ولايه بركاء”
- Belarusian: “Барка (Аман)”
- Belarusian: “Барка”
- Bengali: “বার্কা, ওমান”
- Cebuano: “Barkā‘”
- Cebuano: “Barkā’”
- Chinese: “巴尔卡,阿曼”
- Chinese: “巴爾卡”
- Czech: “Barká”
- Danish: “Barka”
- Dutch: “Barka”
- Finnish: “Barka, Oman”
- French: “Barka (Oman)”
- French: “Barka”
- German: “Barka (Oman)”
- German: “Barka”
- Greek: “Μπάρκα”
- Gujarati: “બરકા, ઓમાન”
- Hausa: “Barka”
- Hebrew: “ברקה”
- Hindi: “बरका, ओमान”
- Hindi: “बर्का”
- Indonesian: “Barka, Oman”
- Italian: “Barka‘”
- Italian: “Barka’”
- Italian: “Barka”
- Japanese: “バルカ (オマーン)”
- Japanese: “バルカー (オマーン)”
- Japanese: “バルカーウ”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ಕಾ, ಓಮನ್”
- Korean: “바르카”
- Latvian: “Barka”
- Lithuanian: “Barka, Omanas”
- Malay: “Barka, Oman”
- Malayalam: “ബർക്ക”
- Marathi: “बरका, ओमान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barka i Oman”
- Norwegian: “Barka”
- Ossetian: “Барка (Оман)”
- Ossetian: “Барка”
- Persian: “برکا”
- Persian: “برکاء”
- Polish: “Barka”
- Portuguese: “Barka (Oman)”
- Portuguese: “Borca”
- Russian: “Барка”
- Sinhala: “බර්කා ,ඕමාන්”
- Spanish: “Barka (Oman)”
- Spanish: “Barka”
- Swedish: “Barka”
- Tamil: “பார்க்கா, ஓமான்”
- Telugu: “బార్కా, ఒమన్”
- Thai: “บาร์กา , โอมาน”
- Turkish: “Barka, Oman”
- Ukrainian: “Барка”
- Urdu: “برکاء، عمان”
- Vietnamese: “Barka, Oman”
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