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.
- Type: City with 46,800 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Bahlā”, “Бахла (город)”, “ولايه بهلا”, “バハラ”, and “拜赫莱”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bahla Fort.
Bahla
- Categories: province of Oman and locality
- Location: Northern Oman, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
22.9985° or 22° 59′ 55″ north
Longitude
57.3168° or 57° 19′ 1″ east
Population
46,800
Open location code
7HJVX8X8+9P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bahla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بهلا”
- Arabic: “بهلاء”
- Belarusian: “Бахла”
- Bengali: “বাহলা”
- Bulgarian: “Бахла”
- Catalan: “Bahla”
- Chinese: “巴赫拉”
- Chinese: “拜赫拉”
- Czech: “Bahlá”
- Dutch: “Bahla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بهلا”
- French: “Bahla”
- German: “Bahla”
- German: “Bahlā”
- Hebrew: “בהלא”
- Indonesian: “Bahla”
- Italian: “Bahla”
- Japanese: “バフラ”
- Malayalam: “ബഹ്ല”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bahla”
- Norwegian: “Bahla”
- Persian: “بهلاء”
- Polish: “Bahla”
- Portuguese: “Bahla”
- Portuguese: “Bala”
- Russian: “Бахла”
- Slovenian: “Bahla”
- Ukrainian: “Багла”
- Urdu: “بہلا، عمان”
- Urdu: “بہلا”
- Vietnamese: “Bahla”
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