Sharurah

Sharurah is a governorate in , southern Saudi Arabia, approximately 200 miles east of the town of . It is located in the Empty Quarter desert near the Yemeni border, and functions mainly as a border town.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: City with 75,200 residents
  • Description: governorate in Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Sharawrah”, “Sharorah”, “Sharūrah”, “Sharurah governorate”, and “The bride of the Empty Quarter”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sharurah Domestic Airport.

Aerodrome
is an serving Sharurah, a town in , . The airport was established in 1972.

Sharurah

Latitude
17.49123° or 17° 29′ 28″ north
Longitude
47.11261° or 47° 6′ 45″ east
Population
75,200
Elevation
726 metres (2,382 feet)
IATA airport code
SHW
United Nations Location Code
SA SHW
Open location code
7H99F4R7+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1013646681
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8019123
Wiki­data ID
Q2568060
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Sharurah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شرورة”
  • Arabic: “عروس الربع الخالي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة شرورة”
  • Dutch: “Sharurah”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝarura”
  • French: “Sharurah”
  • German: “Scharura”
  • Hebrew: “נפת שרורה”
  • Italian: “Sharurah”
  • Japanese: “シャルラ”
  • Kurdish: “Şerûre”
  • Mazanderani: “شروره”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sharurah”
  • Persian: “شروره”
  • Polish: “Szarura”
  • Russian: “Шарура”
  • Tagalog: “Sharurah”
  • Turkish: “Şarure”
  • Urdu: “شرورہ”

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Highlights include بلدية شرورة and مستشفى شرورة العام.

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