Shatt al Arab
Shatt al Arab is a town in Basra Governorate, Iraq. Shatt al Arab is situated nearby to the town At Tannumah, as well as near the locality Nahr ash Shutaybi.Places of Interest
Highlights include Basra Museum and Basra International Hotel.
Basra Museum
Museum
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The Basrah Museum is a museum in the Iraqi city of Basra, It is located on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab some 3 km south‐east of Basra’s historic city centre. Basra Museum is situated 4 km south of Shatt al Arab.
Basra International Hotel
Hotel
The Basra International Hotel is a hotel on Shatt al-Arab bank in Al Ashar District, in Basrah, Iraq. The hotel was built in 1981 as the Basrah Sheraton Hotel & Casino.
Basra War Cemetery
Cemetery
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Basra War Cemetery is a military cemetery in Basra, Iraq. Originally a small civil cemetery, it was greatly enlarged during the First World War and contains 2,890 graves, the majority of which are Commonwealth casualties killed during the Mesopotamian campaign. Basra War Cemetery is situated 3½ km west of Shatt al Arab.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Basra.
Basra
Basra is a port city in Southern Iraq, close to the border with Kuwait and Iran. It is Iraq's third largest city with a population of 2,150,000.
Shatt al Arab
- Type: Town
- Also known as: “Qada‘ Shatt al ’Arab”, “Qaḑā’ Shaţţ al ‘Arab”, and “شط العرب, Shatt al Arab”
- Category: locality
- Location: Basra Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.53259° or 30° 31′ 57″ northLongitude
47.85748° or 47° 51′ 27″ eastElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
8H29GVM4+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 2487919053OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6999907
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Shatt al Arab” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شط العرب”
- Arabic: “قضاء شط العرب”
- French: “Chatt-el-Arab”
- German: “Schatt al-Arab”
- Spanish: “Shatt al-Arab”
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