Bahla
Bahla is a fortified oasis town in Northern Oman, best known for its immense 14th-century fortress and for a unique style of pottery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 46,800 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Bahlā”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bahla Fort.
Bahla Fort
Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.
Bahla Fort is one of four historic fortresses situated at the foot of the Jebel Akhdar highlands in Oman and was the country's first UNESCO-listed fort added in 1987.
Bahla
- Categories: province of Oman and locality
- Location: Northern Oman, Oman, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.9985° or 22° 59′ 55″ northLongitude
57.3168° or 57° 19′ 1″ eastPopulation
46,800Open location code
7HJVX8X8+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 1721768792OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityWikidata ID
Q800253
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bahla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بهلا”
- Arabic: “بهلاء”
- Arabic: “ولايه بهلا”
- Belarusian: “Бахла”
- Bengali: “বাহলা”
- Bulgarian: “Бахла”
- Catalan: “Bahla”
- Chinese: “巴赫拉”
- Chinese: “拜赫拉”
- Chinese: “拜赫莱”
- Czech: “Bahlá”
- Dutch: “Bahla”
- French: “Bahla”
- German: “Bahla”
- German: “Bahlā”
- Hebrew: “בהלא”
- Indonesian: “Bahla”
- Italian: “Bahla”
- Japanese: “バハラ”
- Japanese: “バフラ”
- Malayalam: “ബഹ്ല”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bahla”
- Norwegian: “Bahla”
- Persian: “بهلا”
- Persian: “بهلاء”
- Polish: “Bahla”
- Portuguese: “Bahla”
- Portuguese: “Bala”
- Russian: “Бахла (город)”
- Russian: “Бахла”
- Slovenian: “Bahla”
- Ukrainian: “Багла”
- Urdu: “بہلا، عمان”
- Vietnamese: “Bahla”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bahla”. Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.