Karbala
Karbala is a major city in Iraq, and the capital of Karbala Governorate. With a population of around 800,000 people in 2024, Karbala is the second-largest city in central Iraq, after Baghdad.
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Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: city in Karbala Governorate, Iraq
- Also known as: “al-Ghadiriya”, “at-Taff”, “Karbalā‘”, “Karbila”, “Karbola”, “Kerbela”, “Kerbelâ”, “Meshed Hussain”, “Meshed Hussein”, “Nainawa”, “Qerbala”, “Qerbalá”, “Querbala”, “Querbela”, “Shathi’ul-Furat”, “Κερμπάλα”, “כרבאלא”, “الطف”, “الغاضرية”, “كربلا”, “کربلای معلا”, “کربلای معلی”, and “カルバラ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Al-Abbas’s threshold.
Karbala
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kerbala District, Karbala Governorate, Southern Iraq, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.5984° or 32° 35′ 54″ north
Longitude
44.0158° or 44° 0′ 57″ east
Population
1,220,000
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IQ KAR
Open location code
8H46H2X8+98
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Karbala” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Qerbelaja”
- Arabic: “كربلاء المقدسة”
- Arabic: “كربلاء”
- Armenian: “Քարբալա”
- Armenian: “Քերբելա”
- Asturian: “Karbala”
- Azerbaijani: “Kərbəla”
- Bashkir: “Кәрбәлә”
- Basque: “Karbala”
- Belarusian: “Кербела”
- Bengali: “কারবালা”
- Breton: “Karbala”
- Bulgarian: “Кербала”
- Burmese: “ကရ်ဘလာ”
- Catalan: “Karbala”
- Cebuano: “Karbala”
- Cebuano: “Kärbälaʼ”
- Central Kurdish: “کەربەلا”
- Chinese: “卡尔巴拉”
- Chinese: “卡爾巴拉”
- Croatian: “Karbala”
- Czech: “Karbalá”
- Danish: “Karbala”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kerbela”
- Dutch: “Karbala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كربلاء”
- Esperanto: “Karbalo”
- Estonian: “Karbalā’”
- Finnish: “Karbala”
- French: “Karbala”
- French: “Kerbala”
- Georgian: “ქარბალა”
- German: “Karbala”
- German: “Kerbela”
- Greek: “Καρμπάλα”
- Gujarati: “કરબલા”
- Hausa: “Karbala”
- Hebrew: “כרבלא”
- Hebrew: “כרבלה”
- Hindi: “करबला”
- Hindi: “कर्बला”
- Hungarian: “Kerbela”
- Indonesian: “Karbala”
- Irish: “Karbala”
- Italian: “Karbala”
- Italian: “Kerbala”
- Italian: “Kerbela”
- Japanese: “カルバラー”
- Javanese: “Karbala”
- Kannada: “ಕರ್ಬಲಾ”
- Kashmiri: “کربلا”
- Kazakh: “Кербела”
- Kinaray-A: “Karbala”
- Kirghiz: “Кербела”
- Korean: “카르발라”
- Kurdish: “Kerbela”
- Latvian: “Kerbela”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Carbala”
- Lithuanian: “Kerbela”
- Lombard: “Karbala”
- Malay: “Karbala”
- Malayalam: “കർബല”
- Marathi: “करबला”
- Marathi: “करबळा”
- Mazanderani: “کربلا”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “كربلاء”
- Mingrelian: “ქარბალა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karbala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karbala”
- Norwegian: “Karbala”
- Pampanga: “Karbalâ”
- Panjabi: “ਕਰਬਲਾ”
- Persian: “کربلا”
- Polish: “Karbala”
- Portuguese: “Carbala”
- Portuguese: “Karbala”
- Pushto: “کربلا”
- Romanian: “Karbala”
- Romanian: “Kerbala”
- Russian: “Кербела”
- Scots: “Karbala”
- Serbian: “Karbala”
- Serbian: “Карбала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karbala”
- Sicilian: “Kerbala”
- Sindhi: “ڪربلا”
- Sinhala: “කර්බලා”
- Slovenian: “Karbala”
- Somali: “Karbalaa”
- South Azerbaijani: “کربلا”
- Spanish: “Karbala”
- Spanish: “Karbalá”
- Spanish: “Kerbala”
- Sundanese: “Karbala”
- Swedish: “Karbala”
- Tagalog: “Karbala”
- Tagalog: “Kërbëlâ”
- Tajik: “Karbalā”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Карбало”
- Tajik: “Карбало”
- Tamil: “கர்பலா”
- Tatar: “Кәрбәлаэ”
- Telugu: “కర్బాలా”
- Thai: “กัรบะลาอ์”
- Turkish: “Kerbela”
- Uighur: “كةربالا”
- Uighur: “كەربەلا”
- Ukrainian: “Кербела”
- Urdu: “کربلا”
- Uzbek: “Karbalo”
- Venetian: “Kerbela”
- Vietnamese: “Karbala”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karbala”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kërbëla”
- Western Panjabi: “کربلا”
- Wu Chinese: “卡尔巴拉”
- “Karbalāʾ”
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