Southern Iraq
Basra Governorate
Basrah District

Basra

Basra is a port city in , close to the border with and . It is Iraq's third largest city with a population of 2,150,000.
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  • Type: City with 2,150,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al Basrah”, “Al Baṣrah”, “Al- Basrah - البصرة”, “Basrah”, “Bassorah”, “Busra”, and “Busrah”

Basra

Latitude
30.4952° or 30° 29′ 43″ north
Longitude
47.8091° or 47° 48′ 33″ east
Population
2,150,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
BSR
United Nations Location Code
IQ BSR
Open location code
8H29FRW5+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 428339490
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
99532
Wiki­data ID
Q48195
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Basra” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Basra”
  • Albanian: “Basra”
  • Arabic: “Basra”
  • Arabic: “إقليم البصرة”
  • Arabic: “اقليم البصرة”
  • Arabic: “البصرة”
  • Arabic: “البصره”
  • Arabic: “بصرة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة البصرة”
  • Armenian: “Բասրա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəsrə”
  • Bashkir: “Бәсра”
  • Basque: “Basora”
  • Basque: “Basra”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Basra”
  • Belarusian: “Басра”
  • Bengali: “বসরা”
  • Bosnian: “Basra”
  • Bulgarian: “Басра”
  • Catalan: “Al-Basrah”
  • Catalan: “Bàsora”
  • Catalan: “Basorah”
  • Catalan: “Basra”
  • Catalan: “Bàssora”
  • Cebuano: “Al Başrah”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەسرە”
  • Chechen: “Басра”
  • Chinese: “勃萨罗国”
  • Chinese: “巴士拉”
  • Chinese: “巴斯拉”
  • Chinese: “忽厮离”
  • Chinese: “波斯离”
  • Croatian: “Basra”
  • Czech: “Basra”
  • Danish: “Basra”
  • Dutch: “Al-Basrah”
  • Dutch: “Basra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البصره”
  • Esperanto: “Basra”
  • Esperanto: “Basro”
  • Estonian: “Al-Başrah”
  • Estonian: “Basra”
  • Finnish: “Al Basrah”
  • Finnish: “Basra Governorate”
  • Finnish: “Basra”
  • French: “Al-Basra”
  • French: “Bas̩ra”
  • French: “Bassora”
  • French: “Bassorah”
  • French: “Bassrra”
  • Galician: “Basora”
  • Georgian: “ბასრა”
  • German: “Al Basrah”
  • German: “Basra”
  • German: “Baṣra”
  • German: “Basrah”
  • German: “Bassora”
  • Greek: “Βασόρα”
  • Greek: “Μπάσρα”
  • Hausa: “Basra”
  • Hebrew: “אלבצרה”
  • Hebrew: “בצרה (עיראק)”
  • Hebrew: “בצרה, עיראק”
  • Hebrew: “בצרה”
  • Hindi: “बसरा”
  • Hungarian: “Al-Basrah”
  • Hungarian: “Al-Başrah”
  • Hungarian: “Basra”
  • Hungarian: “Baszra”
  • Hungarian: “Bászra”
  • Hungarian: “El-Baszra”
  • Icelandic: “Basra”
  • Indonesian: “Al-Bashrah”
  • Indonesian: “Bashrah”
  • Indonesian: “Basra”
  • Indonesian: “Basrah”
  • Interlingua: “Basra”
  • Irish: “Basra”
  • Italian: “Al Basrah”
  • Italian: “Basra”
  • Italian: “Bassora”
  • Italian: “Bàssora”
  • Italian: “Bassorah”
  • Japanese: “アル＝バスラ”
  • Japanese: “バスラ”
  • Japanese: “バッソラー”
  • Javanese: “Basra”
  • Kabyle: “Baṣra”
  • Kalaallisut: “Basra”
  • Kashmiri: “بصرہ”
  • Kazakh: “Басра”
  • Kirghiz: “Басра”
  • Korean: “바스라”
  • Kurdish: “Basra”
  • Kurdish: “Besra”
  • Kurdish: “Besre”
  • Latin: “Basra”
  • Latvian: “Al Basra”
  • Latvian: “Al-Basra”
  • Latvian: “Basra”
  • Lithuanian: “Basra”
  • Macedonian: “Басра”
  • Malagasy: “Bassora”
  • Malay: “Basra”
  • Malay: “Basrah”
  • Malayalam: “Basra”
  • Malayalam: “ബസറ”
  • Maltese: “Basra”
  • Maori: “Basra”
  • Marathi: “बसरा”
  • Mazanderani: “بصره”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “البصرة”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “البصره”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “مدينة البصرة”
  • Mingrelian: “ბასრა”
  • Mongolian: “Басра”
  • Nauru: “Basra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Basra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basra”
  • Norwegian: “Basra”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܨܪܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡁࡀࡑࡓࡀ”
  • Ossetian: “Басрæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਸਰਾ”
  • Persian: “بصره”
  • Polish: “Al-Basra”
  • Polish: “Basra”
  • Portuguese: “Al Basrah”
  • Portuguese: “al-Basrah”
  • Portuguese: “Baçora”
  • Portuguese: “Baçorá”
  • Portuguese: “Basra”
  • Portuguese: “Basrah”
  • Portuguese: “Bassora”
  • Portuguese: “Bassorá”
  • Romanian: “Basra”
  • Russian: “Басра”
  • Scots: “Basra”
  • Serbian: “Басра”
  • Serbian: “البصرة”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Basra”
  • Silesian: “Basra”
  • Slovak: “Basra”
  • Slovenian: “Basra”
  • Somali: “Basra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بصره”
  • Spanish: “Al Basrah”
  • Spanish: “Basora”
  • Spanish: “Basra”
  • Sundanese: “Basra”
  • Swahili: “Basra”
  • Swedish: “Al Basra”
  • Swedish: “Al Basrah”
  • Swedish: “Al-Basra”
  • Swedish: “Al-Basrah”
  • Swedish: “Al-Baṣrah”
  • Swedish: “Basora”
  • Swedish: “Basra”
  • Swedish: “Basrah”
  • Swedish: “Baṣrah”
  • Swedish: “Bassora”
  • Swedish: “Bassorah”
  • Swedish: “Bassra”
  • Swiss German: “Basra”
  • Tagalog: “‘Basorah”
  • Tagalog: “Al Basrah”
  • Tagalog: “Al-Basrah”
  • Tagalog: “Al-Baṣrah”
  • Tagalog: “Basora”
  • Tagalog: “Basorah”
  • Tagalog: “Basra”
  • Tagalog: “Basrah”
  • Tajik: “Басра”
  • Tamil: “பசுரா”
  • Tatar: “Бәсрә”
  • Thai: “บัสรา”
  • Thai: “บาสรา”
  • Thai: “แบสรา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Basra”
  • Turkish: “Basra”
  • Ukrainian: “Басра”
  • Urdu: “بصرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Basra”
  • Venetian: “Bassora”
  • Vietnamese: “Basra”
  • Walloon: “Bassora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Basra”
  • Welsh: “Basra”
  • Western Armenian: “Պասրա”
  • Western Frisian: “Basra”
  • Western Panjabi: “بصرا”
  • Western Panjabi: “بصرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴士拉”
  • Yiddish: “באצרא”
  • Yue Chinese: “Al-Baṣrah”
  • Yue Chinese: “Basra”
  • Yue Chinese: “البصرة”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴士拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “弼士囉”
  • “Bussora”

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