Atbara
Atbara is a city of 115,000 inhabitants in Northern Sudan. Due to its links to the railway industry, Atbara is also known as the Railway City.
- Type: City with 111,000 residents
- Description: city in Sudan
- Also known as: “`Atbarah”, “Atbarah”, and “Madent Atbara”
Atbara
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: River Nile, Northern Sudan, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
17.6907° or 17° 41′ 27″ north
Longitude
33.9807° or 33° 58′ 51″ east
Population
111,000
Elevation
358 metres (1,175 feet)
IATA airport code
ATB
United Nations Location Code
SD ATB
Open location code
7G9MMXRJ+77
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Atbara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اول مدينة على النيل”
- Arabic: “عطبرة”
- Arabic: “عطبره”
- Arabic: “محطة الوطن الكبير”
- Arabic: “مدينة عطبره”
- Asturian: “Atbarah”
- Bengali: “আটবারা”
- Catalan: “Atbara”
- Catalan: “Setit”
- Catalan: “Takazze”
- Cebuano: “Atbara”
- Chinese: “阿特巴拉”
- Czech: “Atbara”
- Danish: “Atbara”
- Dutch: “Atbara”
- Dutch: “Atbarah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عطبره”
- Esperanto: “Atbarah”
- Estonian: “‘Aţbarah”
- Estonian: “Atbarah”
- Finnish: “Atbara (kaupunki)”
- Finnish: “Atbara”
- French: “Atbara”
- Fulah: “Atbara”
- Galician: “Atbara”
- German: “Atbara”
- German: “ʿAtbara”
- Greek: “Ατμπάρα”
- Gujarati: “એટબારાહ”
- Hebrew: “אטברה”
- Hindi: “अटबारह”
- Indonesian: “Atbarah”
- Irish: “Atbarah”
- Italian: “Atbara”
- Japanese: “アトバラ”
- Kannada: “ಅಟ್ಬರಾಹ್”
- Korean: “아트바라”
- Latvian: “Atbara”
- Lithuanian: “Atbara (miestas)”
- Lithuanian: “Atbara”
- Malay: “Atbarah”
- Marathi: “अटबारह”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atbara”
- Norwegian: “Atbara”
- Persian: “عطبره”
- Polish: “Atbara”
- Portuguese: “Atbara”
- Romanian: “Atbara”
- Russian: “Атбара”
- Russian: “Атбаре”
- Serbian: “Атбара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atbara”
- Sinhala: “ඇට්බරා”
- South Azerbaijani: “عطبره”
- Spanish: “‘Atbarah”
- Spanish: “Atbara”
- Swahili: “Atbara”
- Swedish: “Atbara, Sudan”
- Swedish: “Atbara”
- Tajik: “Атбара”
- Tamil: “அட்பாரா”
- Telugu: “అట్బార్”
- Thai: “อัตบาร่า”
- Turkish: “Atbarah”
- Ukrainian: “Атбара”
- Urdu: “عطبرہ”
- Venetian: “Atbara”
- Vietnamese: “Atbara”
- Vietnamese: “Atbarah”
- Zulu: “Atbara”
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