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Nuqat al Khams

Nuqat al Khams is one of the districts of Libya. It is in the northwest of the country, in what had been the historical region of Tripolitania. Its capital is Zuwara.
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  • Type: State with 288,000 residents
  • Description: district of Libya
  • Also known as: “An Niquat Al Khums”, “An Nuqāţ al Khams”, “Baladīyat an Nuqāţ al Khams”, “Muḩāfaz̧at an Nuqāţ al Khams”, “Nuqat al Khams District”, and “محافظة المنطقة الغربية”

Nuqat al Khams

Latitude
32.7177° or 32° 43′ 4″ north
Longitude
11.9896° or 11° 59′ 23″ east
Population
288,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
8F4HPX9Q+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1312442238
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2593778
Wiki­data ID
Q26161
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Nuqat al Khams” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “النقاط الخمس”
  • Arabic: “شعبية النقاط الخمس”
  • Arabic: “محافظة المنطقة الغربية”
  • Arabic: “محافظة النقاط الخمس”
  • Basque: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Belarusian: “Эн-Нугат-эль-Хумс”
  • Bengali: “নোকাত আল খামস”
  • Bulgarian: “Ан Нугат ал Хумс”
  • Bulgarian: “Ан Нукат ал Хамс”
  • Catalan: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Cebuano: “Sha‘bīyat an Nuqāţ al Khams”
  • Chinese: “努加特海姆斯省”
  • Danish: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Dutch: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Esperanto: “An Nukat Al Ĥams”
  • Esperanto: “An-Nukat al-Ĥams”
  • Esperanto: “distrikto An Nukat Al Ĥams”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto An Nukat Al Ĥams”
  • Esperanto: “distrikto An-Nukat Al-Ĥams”
  • Estonian: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Estonian: “An-Nuqat al-Khams”
  • Estonian: “An-Nuqāt al-Khams”
  • Estonian: “An-Nuqāţ al-Khamsi omavalitsus”
  • Finnish: “Nuqat al Khams”
  • French: “An Nouqat al Khams”
  • Georgian: “ენ-ნუგატ-ელ-ხუმსი”
  • Georgian: “ენ-ნუგატ-ელ-ხუმსის რაიონი”
  • German: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • German: “An-Nuqat al-Chams”
  • German: “LY-NQ”
  • German: “Munizip an-Nuqat al-Chams”
  • Greek: “Νουγκάτ Αλ Κχαμς”
  • Gujarati: “નુકત અલ ખામ્સ”
  • Hindi: “नुकत अल खाम्स”
  • Hungarian: “Nukát el-Hamsz tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Italian: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Italian: “distretto di al-Nuqat al-Khams”
  • Italian: “Distretto di al-Nuqat al-Khams”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Al-Nuqat Al-Khams”
  • Italian: “Municipalità di Al Nuqat al Khams”
  • Japanese: “ヌカート・アル・ハムス県”
  • Kannada: “ನುಖತ್ ಅಲ್ ಖಮ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “누카트알함스주”
  • Korean: “안 누가트 알 캄스 주”
  • Korean: “안 누카트 알 캄스 주”
  • Korean: “안누가트알캄스 주”
  • Korean: “안누가트알캄스”
  • Korean: “안누카트알캄스 주”
  • Latvian: “Nukāta al Hamsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Nukat al Chamso savivaldybė”
  • Malay: “Nuqat al Khams”
  • Marathi: “नुकात अल खाम्स”
  • Mazanderani: “نقاط الخمس اوستان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Norwegian: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Persian: “استان نقاط الخمس”
  • Persian: “استان نقاط‌الخمس”
  • Polish: “Al Nuqat al Khams”
  • Polish: “An-Nukat al-Chams”
  • Portuguese: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Portuguese: “Nigatal Homs”
  • Portuguese: “Nuqat Al Khams”
  • Romanian: “Districtul An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Russian: “Эн-Нугат-эль-Хумс”
  • Scots: “An Nuqat al Khams Destrict”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nukat al Hams (okrug)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nukat al Hams”
  • Sinhala: “නුකට් අල් කම්ස්”
  • Spanish: “An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de An Nuqat al Khams”
  • Swedish: “an-Nuqat al-Khams”
  • Swedish: “An-Nuqat al-Khams”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Ан Нуқат ал Хамс”
  • Tamil: “நுஃஆட் அல் கம்ஸ”
  • Telugu: “నౌఖత్ అల్ ఖామ్స్”
  • Thai: “นูกัท อัล คาม”
  • Turkish: “Hums”
  • Turkish: “Nükat El Hams”
  • Ukrainian: “Ен-Нугат ель-Хумс”
  • Ukrainian: “Ен-Нуґат ель-Хумс”
  • Urdu: “نقاط الخمس”
  • Vietnamese: “Nuqat al Khams”
  • Volapük: “Nukatälkamsiän”
  • Zulu: “Nuqat al Khams”

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