Jahra
Jahra, also referred to as Al Jahra, is the capital of Al Jahra Governorate, Kuwait. It is home to the historic Kuwaiti Red Fort, the site of the 1920 Battle of Jahra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 393,000 residents
- Description: town in Kuwait
- Also known as: “Al Jahara”, “Al Jahra”, “Al Jahra‘”, “Al Jahrah”, “Al-Jaharah”, “Iahara”, and “Jahra Village”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Red Fort and Al-Shabab Mubarak Al-Aiar Stadium.
Red Fort
Photo: Σύμμαχος, Public domain.
The Kuwait Red Fort is a historic Kuwaiti palace and museum that lies about 32 kilometres west of Kuwait City in Al-Jahra. The fort was the location of the Battle of Jahra in 1920.
Al-Shabab Mubarak Al-Aiar Stadium
Stadium
The Al-Shabab Mubarak Al-Aiar Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Jahra, Kuwait. It is used mostly for football matches, on club level by Al Jahra of the Kuwaiti Premier League. The stadium has a capacity of 17,000 spectators.
Jahra
- Categories: area of Kuwait and locality
- Location: Al Jahra Governorate, Kuwait, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.3475° or 29° 20′ 51″ northLongitude
47.6722° or 47° 40′ 20″ eastPopulation
393,000Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)Open location code
7HX98MWC+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1278188834OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
285799Wikidata ID
Q1077024
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jahra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجهراء القديمة”
- Arabic: “الجهراء القديمه”
- Arabic: “الجهراء”
- Arabic: “اَلْجَهْرَاء”
- Arabic: “قرية الجهراء”
- Bengali: “আল জাহরা”
- Bengali: “আল জাারা”
- Catalan: “Al Jahra”
- Cebuano: “Al Jahrā‘”
- Cebuano: “Al Jahrā’”
- Chinese: “傑赫拉”
- Chinese: “杰赫拉”
- Czech: “Džahra”
- Danish: “Al Jahra”
- Dutch: “Al Jahra”
- Dutch: “Jahra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجهراء”
- Estonian: “Al-Jahrā’”
- Finnish: “Al Jahra”
- French: “Al Jahra”
- German: “al-Dschahra”
- German: “Al-Dschahra”
- Greek: “Αλ Τζαχρά”
- Greek: “Αλ Τζάχρα”
- Gujarati: “અલ જહરા”
- Hausa: “Al Jahra”
- Hebrew: “אל-ג’הראא”
- Hindi: “अल जहरा”
- Hungarian: “Dzsahrá”
- Indonesian: “Al Jahra”
- Italian: “Al-Jahra”
- Italian: “Jahrah”
- Japanese: “ジャハラー”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ ಜಹ್ರಾ”
- Korean: “알자라”
- Latvian: “Džehra”
- Latvian: “El Džahra”
- Lithuanian: “Al Džahra”
- Lithuanian: “Džahra”
- Malay: “Al Jahra”
- Marathi: “अल जहरा”
- Mazanderani: “الجهراء”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ჯაჰრა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Jahra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Jahra”
- Norwegian: “Al Jahra”
- Persian: “الجهرا”
- Persian: “الجهراء”
- Persian: “جهرا”
- Polish: “Al-Dżahra”
- Polish: “Jahra”
- Portuguese: “Al Jahra”
- Russian: “Аль-Джахра”
- Russian: “Эль-Джахара”
- Russian: “Эль-Джахра”
- Scots: “Al Jahra”
- Sinhala: “අල් ජහරා”
- Sinhala: “අල් ජහ්රා”
- Slovenian: “Al Džahra”
- Spanish: “Jahra”
- Spanish: “Yahra”
- Swedish: “al-Jahra”
- Swedish: “Al-Jahra”
- Tamil: “அல் ஜஹ்ரா”
- Telugu: “అల్ జహ్రా”
- Thai: “อัล ญะฮ์รา”
- Turkish: “El Cehre”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Джахра”
- Urdu: “جہراء (شہر)”
- Urdu: “جہراء”
- Vietnamese: “Al Jahra”
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