Ar Rutba

Ar Rutba is a city on the high plateau of the . With about 30,000 inhabitants, it is the westernmost town of any real size, also described as the most isolated town of any size in Iraq.
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  • City with 22,400 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 620 metres (2,034 feet)
  • Also known as
    “Al Rutbah”
    “Al Rutbah - الرطبة”
    “Ar-Rutbah”
    “Rutbah”

Ar Rutba

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Latitude
33.0367° or 33° 2′ 12″ north
Longitude
40.2876° or 40° 17′ 16″ east
Open location code
8H5227PQ+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2488061017
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
98677
Wiki­data ID
Q1029634

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Ar Rutba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الثميله”
  • Arabic: “الرطبة”
  • Arabic: “الرطبه”
  • Arabic: “رطبة”
  • Armenian: “Ար-Ռուտբա”
  • Asturian: “Ar Rutba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ər-Rutba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ər-Rutbа”
  • Cebuano: “Ar Ruţbah”
  • Chinese: “魯特拜”
  • Chinese: “鲁特拜”
  • Czech: “Rutba”
  • Dutch: “Ar Rutba”
  • Finnish: “ar-Rutba”
  • Finnish: “Rutba”
  • French: “al-Routbah”
  • French: “Ar Routbah”
  • French: “Ar Rutba”
  • French: “Ar-Rutbah”
  • German: “Ar-Rutba”
  • Hebrew: “א-רותבה”
  • Italian: “Ar Rutba”
  • Japanese: “ルトバ”
  • Kazakh: “Ér-Rwtba”
  • Kazakh: “Эр-Рутба”
  • Kazakh: “ەر-رۋتبا”
  • Korean: “루트바”
  • Kurdish: “Rutbe”
  • Mazanderani: “رطبه”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ar Rutbah”
  • Persian: “رطبه”
  • Polish: “Ar-Rutba”
  • Romanian: “Ar Rutba”
  • Russian: “Эр-Рутба”
  • Spanish: “Ar Rutba”
  • Swedish: “Ar Rutba”
  • Swedish: “Ar Ruţbah”
  • Swedish: “Ar-Rutba”
  • Ukrainian: “Ер-Рутба”
  • Urdu: “الرطبہ”
  • Welsh: “Ar Rutbah”
  • Western Panjabi: “الرطبہ”

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