Al-Fashir
El Fasher is a city in western Sudan. It serves as the capital of the North Darfur State, is located in the Darfur region of Sudan, and is 195 kilometres northeast of Nyala.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 277,000 residents
- Description: capital city of North Darfur, Sudan
- Also known as: “Al Fashir”, “Al Fāshir”, “El Fasher”, “El Fasher town”, “El-Fashir”, and “Tendelti”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Fasher Airport.
El Fasher Airport
Aerodrome
El Fasher Airport, also known as Al Fashir Airport, is an airport serving El Fasher, the capital city of the North Darfur state in Sudan. United Nations peacekeeping force UNAMID uses a special terminal at El Fasher Airport for transportation.
Al-Fashir
- Category: locality
- Location: Northern Darfur, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.6238° or 13° 37′ 26″ northLongitude
25.3556° or 25° 21′ 20″ eastPopulation
277,000Elevation
748 metres (2,454 feet)IATA airport code
ELFUnited Nations Location Code
SD ELFOpen location code
7G57J9F4+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 300074306OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
379555Wikidata ID
Q311204
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Al-Fashir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الفاشر”
- Arabic: “فاشر”
- Armenian: “Էլ Ֆաշիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Faşər”
- Basque: “Al-Fashir”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Фашыр”
- Bengali: “আল ফাশির”
- Catalan: “Al Fashir”
- Catalan: “Al-Fasher”
- Catalan: “Al-Fashir”
- Cebuano: “El Fasher”
- Chinese: “法希尔”
- Chinese: “法希爾”
- Croatian: “Al-Fašir”
- Czech: “Fášir”
- Danish: “Al-Fashir”
- Dutch: “Al Fashir”
- Dutch: “Al-Fashir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفاشر”
- Esperanto: “Al Faŝir”
- Estonian: “Al-Fāshir”
- Finnish: “Al-Fashir”
- French: “Al-Fashir”
- French: “El Fasher”
- French: “El-Facher”
- French: “El-Fasher”
- German: “Al-Faschir”
- German: “Al-Fāschir”
- German: “Al-Fashir”
- German: “El Fasher”
- German: “El-Fasher”
- Greek: “Αλ-Φασίρ”
- Greek: “Ελ Φασέρ”
- Gujarati: “અલ-ફાશીર”
- Hebrew: “אל-פאשר”
- Hebrew: “פאשיר”
- Hindi: “अल-फशीर”
- Hungarian: “Al Fashir”
- Indonesian: “Al-Fashir”
- Irish: “Al-Fashir”
- Italian: “Al Fashir”
- Italian: “Al-Fashir”
- Japanese: “アル・ファーシル”
- Japanese: “エル・ファシール”
- Japanese: “エル＝ファーシル”
- Japanese: “ファーシル”
- Japanese: “ファシール”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್-ಫಾಶಿರ್”
- Korean: “알-파시르”
- Korean: “알파시르”
- Latvian: “Fašira”
- Lithuanian: “Faširas”
- Malay: “Al-Fashir”
- Marathi: “अल-फाशीर”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ფაშირი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Fasher”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Fashir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Fashir”
- Norwegian: “Al-Fashir”
- Persian: “الفاشر”
- Polish: “Al-Faszir”
- Portuguese: “Al Fashir”
- Portuguese: “Al-Fashir”
- Portuguese: “El Fasher”
- Portuguese: “El-Fasher”
- Romanian: “Al Fashir”
- Russian: “Эль-Фашер”
- Russian: “Эль-Фашир”
- Serbian: “Ел Фашер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fašer”
- Silesian: “Al-Faszir”
- Sinhala: “අල් -ෆශිර්”
- Slovenian: “Al Fašir”
- South Azerbaijani: “الفاشر”
- Spanish: “Al-Fashir”
- Spanish: “Al-Fāshir”
- Spanish: “El Fasher”
- Spanish: “El-Fasher”
- Swahili: “Al Fashir”
- Swedish: “Al Fashir”
- Swedish: “Al-Fashir”
- Swedish: “El Fasher”
- Tamil: “அல்-பாஷிர்”
- Telugu: “ఆల్-ఫాషిర్”
- Thai: “อัลฟาชิร”
- Turkish: “Al-Fashir”
- Turkish: “El Faşir”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Фашир”
- Urdu: “الفاشر”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Fashir”
- Waray (Philippines): “Al-Fashir”
- Zulu: “Al-Fashir”
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