Murzuk
Murzuk, Murzuq, Murzug or Merzug is an oasis town and the capital of the Murzuq District in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya. It lies on the northern edge of the Murzuq Desert, an extremely arid region of ergs or great sand dunes which is part of the greater Sahara Desert.
- City with about 47,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 400 metres (1,300 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code QMQ
- Description: town in Libya
- Also known as“Marzūq”“Mourzouk”“Murzuq”“ⵎⵔⵣⵇ مرزق Murzuq”
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Latitude
25.91409° or 25° 54′ 51″ north
Longitude
13.91972° or 13° 55′ 11″ east
UN/LOCODE
LY QMQ
Open location code
7FQMWW79+JV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Murzuk” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሙርዙክ”
- Arabic: “مرزق”
- Asturian: “Murzuk”
- Azerbaijani: “Murzuk”
- Belarusian: “Мурзук”
- Bengali: “মুরজুক”
- 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”
- French: “Murzuq”
- Georgian: “მარზუკი”
- German: “Murzuk”
- Greek: “Μαρζούκ”
- Hausa: “Murzuk”
- Hebrew: “מורזוק”
- Hindi: “मुरजुक”
- Indonesian: “Murzuk”
- Italian: “Murzuch”
- Japanese: “ムルズク”
- Javanese: “Murzuk”
- Kazakh: “Мурзук”
- Kirghiz: “Мурзук”
- Korean: “무르주크”
- Lithuanian: “Murzukas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Murzuk”
- Malay: “Murzuk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Murzuk”
- Norwegian: “Murzuk”
- Oromo: “Murzuuk”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁਰਜ਼ੁਕ”
- Persian: “مرزق”
- Polish: “Marzuk”
- Polish: “Murzuk”
- Polish: “Murzuq”
- Portuguese: “Murzuk”
- Portuguese: “Murzuque”
- Pushto: “مرزق”
- Romanian: “Murzuk”
- Russian: “Марзук”
- Russian: “Мурзук”
- Scots: “Murzuk”
- Serbian: “Мурзук”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murzuk”
- Slovenian: “Murzuk”
- Slovenian: “Murzuq”
- Somali: “Murzuk”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرزق، لیبی”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرزق”
- Spanish: “Murzuk”
- Spanish: “Murzuq”
- Swahili: “Murzuk”
- Swedish: “Murzuk”
- Tajik: “Мурзук”
- Tatar: “Мурзук”
- Turkish: “Murzuk”
- Ukrainian: “Марзук”
- Urdu: “مرزق”
- Uzbek: “Murzuk”
- Volapük: “Mursuk”
- Zulu: “Murzuk”
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