Akko

Akko, also known historically to Arabs as عكّا and Westerners as Acre, lies on the northern edge of the Bay of Acre in northern and receives many Baha'i pilgrims.
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  • Type: Town with 51,400 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “‘Akka”, “‘Akká”, “‘Akko”, “Accho”, “Accon”, “Accre”, “Acre”, “Acre Israel”, “Acre, Israel”, “Akersborg”, “Akká”, “Akkâ”, “Akkia”, “Akkô”, “Akko (stad)”, “Akre”, “Akrė”, “Akri”, “Antiochia”, “Cidade Antiga de Acre”, “Ciutat d’Acre”, “Fortalesa d’Acre”, “Ptolemaida”, “Ptolemais”, “Ptolemaïs”, “Ptolémaïs”, “Ptolemais da Fenícia”, “S:t Jean d’Acre”, “S. Giovanni d’Acri”, “S. João de Acre”, “Saint Jean d’Acre”, “Saint-Jean d’Acre”, “Saint-Jean-d’Acre”, “San Giovanni d’Acri”, “São João D’Acre”, “São João de Acre”, “St Jean D’Acre”, “St. Jean d’Acre”, “St. Joan d’Acre”, “ʿAkka”, “ʿAkkā”, “ʿAkko”, “ʿAkkô”, “Ἄκη”, “Ακρ”, “Αντιόχεια”, “Ἀντιόχεια Πτολεμαΐς”, “Акия”, “Аккон”, “Птолемаида”, “Сен Жан д’Акр”, “Сен Жан д’Акър”, “Сен-Жан д’Акр”, “აკრა”, “აქო”, “სენ-ჟან-დ’აკრი”, “Սեն-Ժան դ’Ակռ”, “עַכּוֹ”, “عكو”, “مدينة عكا”, “อัคโค”, “アッカー”, “アッコー”, “アッコン”, “アッコ旧市街”, “サン＝ジャン＝ダクレ”, and “阿卡老城”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Al Jazzar Mosque and Acre.

Mosque
Photo: BoazBrill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The el-Jazzar Mosque, also known as the White Mosque…

Railway station
Photo: Tomer chelouche, Public domain.
railway station is an Israel Railways passenger…

Mosque
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
The al-Muallak Mosque also known as the Mosque…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bustan HaGalil and Shomrat.

Village
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is a moshav in the Western Galilee in northern .

Village
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is a kibbutz in northern .

Village
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a kibbutz south of Acre in northern .

Akko

Latitude
32.9282° or 32° 55′ 41″ north
Longitude
35.0756° or 35° 4′ 32″ east
Population
51,400
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IL ACR and IL AKK
Open location code
8G4QW3HG+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278473852
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
295721
Wiki­data ID
Q126084
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Akko” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Akko”
  • Arabic: “عكا”
  • Armenian: “Աքքա”
  • Asturian: “Acre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əkka”
  • Bashkir: “Акә”
  • Basque: “Akre”
  • Belarusian: “Ака”
  • Bengali: “একে”
  • Betawi: “Aka”
  • Breton: “Akko”
  • Bulgarian: “Акра”
  • Catalan: “Acre”
  • Cebuano: “‘Akko”
  • Central Kurdish: “عەکا”
  • Chechen: “Ӏакка”
  • Chinese: “阿卡”
  • Chinese: “阿科”
  • Chuvash: “Акко”
  • Croatian: “Ako”
  • Croatian: “Akra”
  • Czech: “Akko”
  • Danish: “Akko”
  • Dutch: “Akko”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عكا”
  • Esperanto: “Akko”
  • Estonian: “Akko”
  • Finnish: “Akko”
  • French: “Acre”
  • Galician: “Acre, Israel”
  • Galician: “Acre”
  • Georgian: “აკო”
  • German: “Akko”
  • German: “Akkon”
  • Greek: “Άκρα”
  • Gujarati: “એકર”
  • Hebrew: “עכו”
  • Hindi: “आकरे”
  • Hindi: “एकड़”
  • Hungarian: “Akko”
  • Icelandic: “Akrsborg” (historical)
  • Ido: “Akko”
  • Indonesian: “Akka”
  • Indonesian: “Akko”
  • Italian: “Acri”
  • Japanese: “アッコ”
  • Kannada: “ಎಕರೆ”
  • Korean: “아코”
  • Korean: “아크레”
  • Kurdish: “Eka”
  • Ladino: “Akre”
  • Latin: “Acco”
  • Latvian: “Ako”
  • Lithuanian: “Akas”
  • Macedonian: “Ако”
  • Malay: “Akko”
  • Malayalam: “ഏക്കർ, ഇസ്രയേൽ”
  • Malayalam: “ഏക്കർ”
  • Maltese: “Acre”
  • Manx: “Acre, Israel”
  • Manx: “Acre”
  • Marathi: “एकर”
  • Mazanderani: “عکا”
  • Mingrelian: “აკო”
  • Moksha: “Акка”
  • Moksha: “Акко”
  • Mongolian: “Акко”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “عكا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akko”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akko”
  • Norwegian: “Akko”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sant Joan d’Acre”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Acre”
  • Persian: “عکا”
  • Polish: “Akka”
  • Portuguese: “Acre”
  • Portuguese: “Akko”
  • Romanian: “Acra”
  • Russian: “Акка”
  • Russian: “Акко”
  • Scots: “Acre, Israel”
  • Scots: “Acre”
  • Serbian: “Ako”
  • Serbian: “Ако”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ako”
  • Sicilian: “San Giuvanni d’Acri”
  • Silesian: “Akka”
  • Sinhala: “ඇක්රි”
  • Slovak: “Akko”
  • Slovenian: “Aka”
  • Slovenian: “Ako”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عکا”
  • Spanish: “Acre”
  • Swahili: “Akko”
  • Swedish: “Akko”
  • Swiss German: “Akkon”
  • Tagalog: “Acre”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Acre”
  • Tamil: “அக்ரே”
  • Tamil: “ஏக்கர், இஸ்ரேல்”
  • Telugu: “ఏకర్”
  • Thai: “เอเคอร์”
  • Turkish: “Akka”
  • Uighur: “ئەككا”
  • Ukrainian: “Акко”
  • Urdu: “عکا”
  • Urdu: “عکہ”
  • Uzbek: “Akka”
  • Uzbek: “Akko”
  • Vietnamese: “Akko”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Acre”
  • Welsh: “Acre, Palesteina”
  • Welsh: “Acre”
  • Western Armenian: “Աքքա”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿卡 (以色列)”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿卡（以色列）”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿卡”
  • Yiddish: “עכו”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿卡”

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