Amarah

Amarah is a city with about 1.2 million inhabitants in Southern Iraq and the capital of Maysan province.
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  • Type: City with 512,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraq
  • Also known as: “‘Amāra”, “Al ‘Amarah”, “Al Amara”, “Al Amarah”, “al-Amara”, “Amara”, “Amara (Irak)”, “Amaré”, “Ar Amarah”, “El Amara”, “Аль-Амара”, “العماره، عراق”, “قلعة صالح”, “مدينة العمارة”, and “アマラ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Amara War Cemetery and Amara Indian War Cemetery.

Cemetery
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The is a First World War British…

Cemetery
The is a military cemetery…

Amarah

Latitude
31.8498° or 31° 50′ 59″ north
Longitude
47.1496° or 47° 8′ 59″ east
Population
512,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IQ AMA
Open location code
8H39R4XX+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248700950
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
99608
Wiki­data ID
Q366010
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Amarah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “العمارة”
  • Arabic: “العماره”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Ամարա”
  • Armenian: “Էլ-Ամարա”
  • Asturian: “Amarah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Amara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Аmаrа”
  • Basque: “Amara”
  • 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: “Amarah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “العماره”
  • Esperanto: “Amara”
  • Estonian: “Al-‘Amārah”
  • Finnish: “Amara”
  • French: “Al-Amara”
  • French: “Amarah”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ამარა”
  • German: “Amara”
  • Greek: “Αμάρα”
  • Gujarati: “અમરાહ”
  • Hebrew: “עמארה”
  • Hindi: “अमारा”
  • Hindi: “अमाराह”
  • Hungarian: “Amára”
  • Indonesian: “Al-‘Amarah”
  • Indonesian: “Al-’Amarah”
  • Irish: “Amarah”
  • Italian: “Al-‘Amara”
  • Italian: “Al-’Amara”
  • Japanese: “アマーラ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮರಾಹ್”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ಅಮಾರಾ”
  • 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 Nynorsk: “Al-Amarah”
  • Norwegian: “Al-Amarah”
  • Persian: “العماره”
  • Persian: “عماره”
  • Polish: “Al-Amara”
  • Polish: “Amara”
  • Portuguese: “Amara”
  • Romanian: “Amarah”
  • Russian: “Ель-Амара”
  • Russian: “Эль-Амара”
  • Serbian: “Амара”
  • Sinhala: “අමාරා”
  • Slovenian: “Amara”
  • Spanish: “Amara”
  • Swedish: “Al-Amara”
  • Tamil: “எமாரஹ்”
  • Tatar: “Гамәрә”
  • Telugu: “అమరా”
  • Thai: “อัลอะมาเราะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Amare”
  • Turkish: “El-Amare”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Амара”
  • Urdu: “العمارہ”
  • Venetian: “Al-‘Amara”
  • Vietnamese: “Amarah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amarah”
  • Western Panjabi: “عماراہ”

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