Camp Marmal
Camp Marmal was an installation of the Afghan Armed Forces. It was adjacent to Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi International Airport in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Area
- Description: largest base of the Bundeswehr outside of Germany, in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Camp Alexander”, “Maidan-e Hawa’i”, “Maīdān-e Hawā’ī”, “Maidān-i-Hawāi”, “Meydān-e Havā’ī”, “Meydān-e Havan”, “Urochishche Maydani-Khavan”, and “میدان هوائی”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi International Airport.
Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport, officially called Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi International Airport, is located about 9 km east of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, which is around 15 minutes of driving distance from the center of the city.
Camp Marmal
- Category: military base
- Location: Balkh, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Camp Marmal” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Maīdān-e Hawā’ī”
- Chinese: “馬爾馬勒營”
- Chinese: “馬爾馬軍營”
- Croatian: “Kamp Marmal”
- Dutch: “Camp Marmal”
- German: “Camp Marmal”
- German: “CM”
- Japanese: “キャンプ･マーマル”
- Japanese: “マーマル駐屯地”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Camp Marmal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Camp Nidaros”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marmal-leiren”
- Norwegian: “Marmal-leiren”
- Persian: “کمپ مارمال”
- Russian: “Урочище Майдани-Хаван”
- Spanish: “Camp Marmal”
- Swedish: “Camp Birka”
- Swedish: “Camp Marmal”
- Swedish: “Maīdān-e Hawā’ī”
- Uzbek: “Marmal Oromgohi”
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