Amarah
Amarah is a city with about 1.2 million inhabitants in Southern Iraq and the capital of Maysan province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alihaseep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 512,000 residents
- Description: city in Iraq
- Also known as: “‘Amāra”, “Al ‘Amarah”, “Al-Amarah”, “Amara”, and “Amaré”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amara War Cemetery and Amara Indian War Cemetery.
Amara War Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Amara War Cemetery is a First World War British military cemetery in Amara, now known as Amarah, southern Iraq, that is the responsibility of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Amara Indian War Cemetery
Cemetery
The Amara Indian War Cemetery is a military cemetery in Amara, now known as Amarah, southern Iraq, which contains the graves of more than 5,000 Indian soldiers who died during the First World War.
Amarah
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Amara District, Maysan Governorate, Southern Iraq, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.8498° or 31° 50′ 59″ northLongitude
47.1496° or 47° 8′ 59″ eastPopulation
512,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)United Nations Location Code
IQ AMAOpen location code
8H39R4XX+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 248700950OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Amarah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “العمارة”
- Arabic: “العماره”
- Arabic: “قلعة صالح”
- Arabic: “مدينة العمارة”
- Armenian: “Էլ-Ամարա”
- Asturian: “Amarah”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Amara”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Аmаrа”
- Basque: “Amara”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Амара”
- Belarusian: “Амара”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Амара”
- Bengali: “আমারাহ”
- Catalan: “Amara”
- Cebuano: “Al ‘Amārah”
- Central Kurdish: “عەمارە”
- Chinese: “阿馬拉”
- Chinese: “阿马拉”
- Croatian: “Amara”
- Czech: “Amára”
- Danish: “Amarah”
- Dutch: “Al-Amarah”
- Dutch: “Amarah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العمارة”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العماره”
- Esperanto: “Amara”
- Estonian: “Al-‘Amārah”
- Finnish: “al-Amara”
- Finnish: “Amara”
- French: “Al-Amara”
- French: “Amarah”
- Georgian: “ელ-ამარა”
- German: “Al-‘Amarah”
- German: “Al-Amarah”
- German: “Amara”
- German: “Amarah”
- Greek: “Αμάρα”
- Gujarati: “અમરાહ”
- Hebrew: “אל עמארה”
- Hebrew: “עמארה”
- Hindi: “अमारा”
- Hindi: “अमाराह”
- Hungarian: “Amára”
- Indonesian: “Al-‘Amarah”
- Indonesian: “Al-’Amarah”
- Irish: “Amarah”
- Italian: “Al-‘Amara”
- Italian: “Al-’Amara”
- Italian: “Amara”
- Italian: “Amarah”
- Japanese: “アマーラ”
- Japanese: “アマラ”
- Kannada: “ಅಮರಾಹ್”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Amara qalası”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Амара қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەل-امارا قالاسى”
- Korean: “아마라”
- Kurdish: “Emare”
- Latvian: “Amāra”
- Lithuanian: “Amara”
- Malay: “Al-‘Amarah”
- Malay: “Al-’Amarah”
- Marathi: “अमरह”
- Mazanderani: “العماره”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ამარა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Amarah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Amarah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amarah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Amarah”
- Norwegian: “Al-Amarah”
- Persian: “العماره، عراق”
- Persian: “العماره”
- Persian: “عماره”
- Polish: “Al-Amara”
- Polish: “Amara”
- Portuguese: “Amara”
- Romanian: “Al Amarah”
- Romanian: “Amarah”
- Romanian: “Ar Amarah”
- Russian: “Эль-Амара”
- Sinhala: “අමාරා”
- Slovenian: “Amara”
- Spanish: “Al Amarah”
- Spanish: “Amara (Irak)”
- Spanish: “Amara”
- Swedish: “Al Amara”
- Swedish: “Al Amarah”
- Swedish: “Al-Amara”
- Swedish: “Al-Amarah”
- Swedish: “Amarah”
- Tamil: “எமாரஹ்”
- Tatar: “Гамәрә”
- Telugu: “అమరా”
- Thai: “อัลอะมาเราะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Amare”
- Turkish: “El Amara”
- Turkish: “El-Amare”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Амара”
- Urdu: “العمارہ”
- Venetian: “Al-‘Amara”
- Vietnamese: “Amarah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amarah”
- Western Panjabi: “عماراہ”
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