North Africa
Libya
Murzuq District

Murzuk

Murzuk, Murzuq, Murzug or Merzug is an oasis town and the capital of the in the Fezzan region of southwest . It lies on the northern edge of the , an extremely arid region of ergs or great sand dunes which is part of the greater Sahara Desert.
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  • Type: City with 12,700 residents
  • Description: town in Libya
  • Also known as: “Marzūq”, “Mourzouk”, and “Murzuq”

Murzuk

Latitude
25.91409° or 25° 54′ 51″ north
Longitude
13.91972° or 13° 55′ 11″ east
Population
12,700
Elevation
449 metres (1,473 feet)
IATA airport code
QMQ
United Nations Location Code
LY QMQ
Open location code
7FQMWW79+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 260716346
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2214603
Wiki­data ID
Q526822
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Murzuk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرزق”
  • Asturian: “Murzuk”
  • Belarusian: “Мурзук”
  • Bulgarian: “Мурзук”
  • Catalan: “Murzuch”
  • Catalan: “Murzuk”
  • Cebuano: “Murzuq”
  • Chinese: “穆尔祖格”
  • Chinese: “穆爾祖格”
  • Chinese: “迈尔祖格”
  • Czech: “Murzuq (město)”
  • Czech: “Murzuq”
  • Danish: “Murzuk”
  • Dutch: “Murzuk”
  • Dutch: “Murzuq”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرزق”
  • Esperanto: “Murzuk”
  • Finnish: “Murzuq”
  • French: “Mourzouq”
  • Georgian: “მარზუკი”
  • German: “Murzuk”
  • Greek: “Μαρζούκ”
  • Hebrew: “מורזוק”
  • Italian: “Murzuch”
  • Japanese: “ムルズク”
  • Korean: “무르주크”
  • Lithuanian: “Murzukas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Murzuk”
  • Malay: “Murzuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Murzuk”
  • Norwegian: “Murzuk”
  • Persian: “مرزق، لیبی”
  • Persian: “مرزق”
  • Polish: “Marzuk”
  • Polish: “Murzuk”
  • Polish: “Murzuq”
  • Portuguese: “Murzuque”
  • Romanian: “Murzuk”
  • Russian: “Марзук”
  • Russian: “Мурзук”
  • Scots: “Murzuk”
  • Serbian: “Мурзук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Murzuk”
  • Slovenian: “Murzuk”
  • Slovenian: “Murzuq”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرزق، لیبی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرزق”
  • Spanish: “Murzuk”
  • Spanish: “Murzuq”
  • Swahili: “Murzuk”
  • Swedish: “Murzuk”
  • Turkish: “Murzuk”
  • Ukrainian: “Марзук”
  • Urdu: “مرزق”
  • Volapük: “Mursuk”
  • Zulu: “Murzuk”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Murzuk”. Photo: Franzfoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.