Highway of Death
The Highway of Death is a six-lane highway connecting Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra.
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- Description: road in Iraq
- Also known as: “Highway 80” and “ṭarīq al-mawt”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jahra.
Jahra
Jahra, also referred to as Al Jahra, is the capital of Al Jahra Governorate, Kuwait. It is home to the historic Kuwaiti Red Fort, the site of the 1920 Battle of Jahra.
Highway of Death
- Categories: highway and tank graveyard
- Location: Kuwait, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.3842° or 29° 23′ 3″ north
Longitude
47.6518° or 47° 39′ 7″ east
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
Open location code
7HX99MM2+MP
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Highway of Death” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طريق الموت”
- Belarusian: “Аўтастрада сьмерці”
- Belarusian: “Шаша смерці”
- Belarusian: “Шаша сьмерці”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕێگای مەرگ”
- Chinese: “死亡公路”
- Chinese: “死亡高速公路”
- Croatian: “Autocesta smrti”
- Czech: “Dálnice smrti”
- Dutch: “Snelweg des Doods”
- Esperanto: “Ŝoseo de Morto”
- Finnish: “Kuoleman moottoritie”
- French: “Autoroute de la mort”
- French: “Highway of Death”
- German: “Highway of Death”
- Indonesian: “Highway of Death”
- Italian: “autostrada della morte”
- Italian: “Autostrada della morte”
- Japanese: “死のハイウェイ”
- Lithuanian: “Mirties greitkelis”
- Malay: “Lebuhraya Kematian”
- Persian: “بزرگراه مرگ”
- Polish: “autostrada 80”
- Polish: “Autostrada Śmierci”
- Portuguese: “Autoestrada da Morte”
- Portuguese: “Rodovia da Morte”
- Romanian: “Highway of Death”
- Russian: “Шоссе смерти”
- Serbian: “Auto-put smrti”
- Serbian: “Ауто-пут смрти”
- Serbian: “Аутопут смрти”
- Serbian: “Пут смрти”
- Slovak: “Diaľnica smrti”
- Spanish: “autopista 80”
- Spanish: “Autopista de la muerte”
- Spanish: “autovía de la muerte”
- Spanish: “carretera de la muerte”
- Swedish: “Dödens motorväg”
- Swedish: “Highway of Death”
- Turkish: “Ölüm Otoyolu”
- Ukrainian: “Шосе смерті”
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