Misratah
Misrata or Misratah, also known by the Italian spelling Misurata, is a sha'biyah in northwestern Libya. Its capital is the city of Misrata. In 2007 the district was enlarged to include what had been the Bani Walid District and the northernmost strip of coast of the Gulf of Sidra, that from 2001 to 2007 had been part of Sirte District.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: district of Libya with 551,000 residents
- Description: district of Libya
- Also known as: “Baladīyat Mişrātah”, “LY-MI”, “Misrata District”, “Mişrātah”, “Sha’biyat Misratah”, “მისრათა”, “شعبيه مصراته”, “محافظة مصراتة”, “مصراتة |”, “مصراته”, and “ⵎⵚⵔⴰⵜⴰ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Misrata Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Misrata.
Misratah
- Location: Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.3104° or 32° 18′ 37″ north
Longitude
15.0732° or 15° 4′ 24″ east
Population
551,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
8F4Q836F+47
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Misratah” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሚስራታ”
- Arabic: “شعبية مصراتة”
- Arabic: “مصراتة”
- Azerbaijani: “Misrata”
- Belarusian: “Місурата”
- Belarusian: “Муніцыпалітэт Місурата”
- Bengali: “মিসরাতাহ”
- Bengali: “মেসারাতা জেলা”
- Bulgarian: “Мисрата”
- Catalan: “Misurata”
- Cebuano: “Sha‘bīyat Mişrātah”
- Chinese: “米苏拉塔省”
- Chinese: “米蘇拉塔省”
- Danish: “Misrata District”
- Dutch: “Misratah”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Misrata”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Misrata”
- Finnish: “Misratan kaupunginosa”
- French: “Misrata”
- French: “Misratah”
- Georgian: “მისრათის რაიონი”
- German: “Misrata”
- German: “Munizip Misrata”
- Greek: “Μισράτα”
- Gujarati: “મિસ્રાતા જિલ્લો”
- Hausa: “Misrata”
- Hindi: “मिसराता ज़िला”
- Hungarian: “Miszráta tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Misrata”
- Italian: “distretto di Misurata”
- Italian: “Distretto di Misurata”
- Japanese: “ミスラタ”
- Japanese: “ミスラタ県”
- Javanese: “Misratah”
- Kannada: “ಮಿಸ್ರಾಟಾ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kazakh: “Мисрата”
- Kirghiz: “Мисрата”
- Korean: “미스라타주”
- Latvian: “Misrātas šebīja”
- Lithuanian: “Misratos savivaldybė”
- Malay: “Daerah Misratah”
- Malay: “Misratah”
- Marathi: “मिस्ट्रेट जिल्हा”
- Mazanderani: “مصراته اوستان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Misrata distrikt”
- Oromo: “Misrata”
- Panjabi: “ਮਿਸਰਾਤਾ”
- Persian: “استان مصراته”
- Persian: “مصراتة”
- Polish: “Misrata”
- Portuguese: “Misrata”
- Portuguese: “Missurata”
- Portuguese: “Misurata”
- Pushto: “مصراتة”
- Romanian: “Districtul Misratah”
- Russian: “Мисурата”
- Scots: “Misrata Destrict”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Misrata (okrug)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Misrata”
- Sinhala: “මිසරටා දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “distrikt Misrata”
- Somali: “Misrata”
- South Azerbaijani: “استان میصراته”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Misurata”
- Spanish: “Misrata”
- Spanish: “Misurata”
- Swahili: “Misrata”
- Swedish: “Misrata”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Мисратаҳ”
- Tajik: “Мисрата”
- Tamil: “மிஸ்ரட்டா மாவட்டம்”
- Tatar: “Мисрата”
- Telugu: “మిస్రాటా జిల్లా”
- Thai: “เขตมิสราทาห์”
- Tumbuka: “Misratah”
- Turkish: “Mısrâte”
- Ukrainian: “Місурата”
- Urdu: “مصراتہ ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Misrata”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Misrata”
- Volapük: “Misratiän”
- Zulu: “Misrata District”
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