Kerak

Al-Karak, in English sources often simply Karak, is a city in known for its medieval , which is one of the three largest in the region, the other two being in .
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  • Type: Town with 23,000 residents
  • Description: city in Jordan
  • Also known as: “Al Karak”, “Al Kerak”, “Al-Karak”, “al-Kàrak”, “Cayrac”, “Charakmoba”, “Crac des Moabites”, “Crac di Moab”, “El Kerak”, “El Krak de los Moabitas”, “Festung Moabs”, “Kérak”, “Kerakas”, “Kerako”, “Ḳir Ḥareset”, “Ḳir Ḥeres”, “Kir Moab”, “Ḳir Moab”, “Krak”, “Krak de los Moabitas”, “Krak de Moab”, “Krak des Moab”, “Krak des Moabites”, “Le Pierre du Desert”, “Qir Moav”, “Qīr Moāv”, “Καράκ”, “Κεράκ”, “Ал-Карак”, “Аль-Керак”, “Кејрак”, “Керак”, “Крак Моавский”, “Эль-Керак”, “אל קרק”, “אל-כרכ”, “קיר מואב”, “الکرک (شهر)”, “كرك”, “کرک ّ(اردن)”, “مدينة الكرك”, “アル＝カラク”, and “ケラク”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Karak Castle.

Photo: Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kerak Castle is a large medieval castle located in al-Karak, .

Kerak

Latitude
31.1844° or 31° 11′ 4″ north
Longitude
35.705° or 35° 42′ 18″ east
Population
23,000
Elevation
1,000 metres (3,281 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JO QMO
Open location code
8G3Q5PM4+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 350877998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
250624
Wiki­data ID
Q31572
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Kerak” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kerak”
  • Arabic: “الكرك”
  • Armenian: “Ալ Կարակ”
  • Asturian: “Al-Karak”
  • Basque: “Karak”
  • Belarusian: “Карак”
  • Bulgarian: “Карак”
  • Catalan: “al-Karak”
  • Catalan: “Al-Karak”
  • Chinese: “卡拉克”
  • Czech: “Al Karak”
  • Czech: “Kerak”
  • Danish: “Al-Karak”
  • Dutch: “Kerak”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الكرك”
  • Esperanto: “Kerak”
  • Finnish: “Al-Karak”
  • French: “Al Karak”
  • French: “Al-Karak”
  • German: “Al Karak”
  • German: “al-Karak”
  • German: “Al-Karak”
  • German: “Kerak”
  • Greek: “Αλ Καράκ”
  • Hebrew: “כרכ”
  • Hindi: “अल-कराक”
  • Indonesian: “Al-Karak”
  • Italian: “Al-Karak”
  • Japanese: “カラク”
  • Kazakh: “Эль-Карак”
  • Korean: “카라크”
  • Lithuanian: “Karakas”
  • Malay: “Al-Karak”
  • Mazanderani: “کرک (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “کرک”
  • Mingrelian: “ელ-ქარაქი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Karak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Karak”
  • Norwegian: “Al Karak”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Al-Karak”
  • Persian: “کرک”
  • Polish: “Al-Karak”
  • Portuguese: “Al Karak”
  • Portuguese: “Caraque”
  • Romanian: “Al Karak”
  • Russian: “Эль-Карак”
  • Serbian: “Ел Карак”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Karak”
  • Silesian: “Al-Karak”
  • Slovenian: “Al-Karak”
  • Spanish: “Al Karak”
  • Swedish: “al-Karak”
  • Swedish: “Al-Karak”
  • Tajik: “Карак”
  • Thai: “อัลกะร็อก”
  • Turkish: “Kerek”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Карак”
  • Urdu: “الکرک”
  • Uzbek: “El Karak”
  • Welsh: “Al-Karak”
  • Western Panjabi: “کرک”

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