Kerak
Al-Karak, in English sources often simply Karak, is a city in Jordan known for its medieval castle, the Kerak Castle. The castle is one of the three largest castles in the region, the other two being in Syria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,000 residents
- Description: city in Jordan
- Also known as: “Al Karak”, “Al-Karak”, “Charakmoba”, “Kir Moab”, “Qir Moav”, and “Qīr Moāv”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karak Castle.
Karak Castle
Photo: Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kerak Castle is a large medieval castle located in al-Karak, Jordan. It is one of the largest castles in the Levant. Construction began in the 1140s, under Pagan and Fulk, King of Jerusalem.
Kerak
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: King’s Highway, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.1844° or 31° 11′ 4″ northLongitude
35.705° or 35° 42′ 18″ eastPopulation
23,000Elevation
1,000 metres (3,281 feet)United Nations Location Code
JO QMOOpen location code
8G3Q5PM4+P2OpenStreetMap ID
way 350877998OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Kerak” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kerak”
- Arabic: “الكرك”
- Arabic: “كرك”
- Arabic: “مدينة الكرك”
- Armenian: “Ալ Կարակ”
- Asturian: “Al-Karak”
- Basque: “Karak”
- Belarusian: “Карак”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Карак”
- Bulgarian: “Карак”
- Catalan: “al-Karak”
- Catalan: “Al-Karak”
- Catalan: “al-Kàrak”
- Catalan: “Kerak”
- Chinese: “卡拉克”
- Czech: “Al Karak”
- Czech: “Kerak”
- Czech: “Krak de Moab”
- Czech: “Krak des Moab”
- Czech: “Krak des Moabites”
- Danish: “Al-Karak”
- Danish: “Kerak”
- Dutch: “Al-Karak”
- Dutch: “Karak”
- Dutch: “Kerak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكرك”
- Esperanto: “Kerak”
- Esperanto: “Kerako”
- Finnish: “Al-Karak”
- French: “Al Karak”
- French: “Al-Karak”
- French: “Kerak”
- French: “Kérak”
- French: “Krak de Moab”
- German: “Al Karak”
- German: “al-Karak”
- German: “Al-Karak”
- German: “Crac des Moabites”
- German: “Festung Moabs”
- German: “Kerak”
- German: “Ḳir Ḥareset”
- German: “Ḳir Ḥeres”
- German: “Ḳir Moab”
- German: “Le Pierre du Desert”
- Greek: “Αλ Καράκ”
- Greek: “Καράκ”
- Greek: “Κεράκ”
- Hebrew: “אל קרק”
- Hebrew: “אל-כרכ”
- Hebrew: “כרכ”
- Hebrew: “קיר מואב”
- Hindi: “अल-कराक”
- Indonesian: “Al-Karak”
- Italian: “Al-Karak”
- Italian: “Crac di Moab”
- Italian: “Karak”
- Italian: “Kerak”
- Japanese: “アル＝カラク”
- Japanese: “カラク”
- Japanese: “ケラク”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Карак”
- Korean: “카라크”
- Lithuanian: “Karakas”
- Lithuanian: “Kerakas”
- 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: “الکرک (شهر)”
- Persian: “کرک”
- Polish: “Al-Karak”
- Polish: “Karak”
- Portuguese: “Al Karak”
- Portuguese: “Al Kerak”
- Portuguese: “Caraque”
- Portuguese: “Kerak”
- Romanian: “Al Karak”
- Romanian: “Kerak”
- Russian: “Аль-Керак”
- Russian: “Крак Моавский”
- Russian: “Эль-Карак”
- Russian: “Эль-Керак”
- Serbian: “Cayrac”
- Serbian: “Ал-Карак”
- Serbian: “Ел Карак”
- Serbian: “Кејрак”
- Serbian: “Керак”
- Serbian: “كرك”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Karak”
- Silesian: “Al-Karak”
- Slovenian: “Al-Karak”
- Spanish: “Al Karak”
- Spanish: “Al-Karak”
- Spanish: “El Krak de los Moabitas”
- Spanish: “Karak”
- Spanish: “Kerak”
- Spanish: “Krak de los Moabitas”
- Swedish: “al-Karak”
- Swedish: “Al-Karak”
- Swedish: “Kerak”
- Swedish: “Krak”
- Thai: “อัลกะร็อก”
- Turkish: “El Kerak”
- Turkish: “Kerek”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Карак”
- Urdu: “الکرک”
- Urdu: “کرک ّ(اردن)”
- Uzbek: “El Karak”
- Welsh: “Al-Karak”
- Western Panjabi: “کرک”
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