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Karratha

Karratha

Karratha is a city in the region of Western Australia, with a population of 17,013 in 2021. It's entirely modern, built from 1968 to house mining and port workers - Dampier is the port.
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  • Type: City with 17,000 residents
  • Description: town in Western Australia
  • Also known as: “Karatha”, “Karratha, Western Australia”, and “Karratha, Western Australia, Australia”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karratha Senior High School.

School
is a comprehensive public co-educational high day school, located in Karratha, a regional centre in the region, 1,575 kilometres north east of Perth, Western Australia.

Karratha

Latitude
-20.737° or 20° 44′ 13″ south
Longitude
116.8479° or 116° 50′ 52″ east
Population
17,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
KTA
United Nations Location Code
AU KTA
Open location code
5PFR7R7X+54
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3887250742
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6620339
Wiki­data ID
Q1309107
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Karratha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاراثا”
  • Asturian: “Karratha”
  • Basque: “Karratha”
  • Bengali: “কারাতা”
  • Catalan: “Karratha”
  • Cebuano: “Karratha”
  • Chinese: “卡拉萨 (西澳洲)”
  • Chinese: “卡拉萨”
  • Chinese: “卡拉薩 (西澳洲)”
  • Chinese: “卡拉薩”
  • Danish: “Karratha”
  • Dutch: “Karratha, Western Australia”
  • Dutch: “Karratha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاراثا”
  • Esperanto: “Karratha”
  • Finnish: “Karratha”
  • French: “Karratha”
  • Georgian: “კარათა”
  • German: “Karratha”
  • Greek: “Καράθα”
  • Gujarati: “કરરથા”
  • Hebrew: “קראטה”
  • Hindi: “करराथा”
  • Indonesian: “Karratha”
  • Irish: “Karratha”
  • Italian: “Karratha”
  • Japanese: “カラサ”
  • Japanese: “カラッサ”
  • Kannada: “ಕರ್ರಥಾ”
  • Korean: “카르타”
  • Latvian: “Karata”
  • Latvian: “Karrata”
  • Lithuanian: “Karata”
  • Malagasy: “Karratha”
  • Malay: “Karratha”
  • Marathi: “करथा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karratha”
  • Persian: “کاراثا، استرالیا غربی”
  • Polish: “Karratha”
  • Portuguese: “Karratha”
  • Russian: “Каррата”
  • Sinhala: “කර්රාතා”
  • Spanish: “Karratha”
  • Swedish: “Karratha”
  • Tamil: “கர்றதா”
  • Telugu: “కర్రాథ”
  • Thai: “คาร์ราต้า”
  • Turkish: “Karratha”
  • Ukrainian: “Каррата”
  • Urdu: “کرراتھا”
  • Vietnamese: “Karratha”
  • “Karratha”

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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 “Karratha”. Photo: Glen Dillon, CC BY-SA 3.0.