Manama
Manama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with its 700,000 people representing nearly half the country's population. Overshadowed by its brash Gulf neighbors Dubai and Qatar, it's often overlooked as a travel destination, but this clean, modern and safe city offers a quieter, gentler introduction to the Gulf way of life.
- City with 157,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 12 metres (39 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code WGF
- Description: capital of Bahrain
- Also known as“Al Manāma”“Al Manāmah”“Manameh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al Fateh Grand Mosque and Bait Al Quran.
Gudaibiya Palace
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muharraq and Bahrain Financial Harbor.
Al Hoora
Suburb
Photo: Shijaz, Public domain.Manama
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Latitude
26.2235° or 26° 13′ 25″ north
Longitude
50.5822° or 50° 34′ 56″ east
UN/LOCODE
BH AMH
Open location code
7HRG6HFJ+CV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Manama” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Al-Manamah”
- Afrikaans: “Manama”
- Albanian: “Manama”
- Amharic: “ማናማ”
- Arabic: “المنامة”
- Arabic: “اَلْمَنَامَة”
- Aragonese: “Manama”
- Armenian: “Մանամա”
- Arpitan: “Manama”
- Asturian: “Manama”
- Azerbaijani: “Manama”
- Balinese: “Manama”
- Bashkir: “Манама”
- Basque: “Manama”
- Belarusian: “Манама”
- Bengali: “মানামা”
- Bosnian: “Manama”
- Breton: “Manama”
- Bulgarian: “Манама”
- Burmese: “မာနာမာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Al-Manama”
- Cebuano: “Manama (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Manama”
- Central Bikol: “Manama”
- Central Kurdish: “مەنامە”
- Chechen: “Манама”
- Chinese: “麥納瑪”
- Chinese: “麥納麥”
- Chinese: “麥納麦”
- Chinese: “麦纳玛”
- Chinese: “麦纳麦”
- Croatian: “Manama”
- Czech: “Manáma”
- Danish: “Manama”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mename”
- Dutch: “Manama”
- Dutch: “Manamah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المنامه”
- Erzya: “Манама”
- Esperanto: “Manamo”
- Estonian: “Al-Manāmah”
- Estonian: “Manama”
- Fiji Hindi: “Manama”
- Finnish: “Manama”
- French: “Manama”
- Galician: “Manama”
- Georgian: “მანამა”
- German: “Manama”
- Greek: “Μανάμα”
- Gujarati: “મનામા”
- Haitian: “Manama”
- Hakka Chinese: “Manama”
- Hausa: “Manama”
- Hebrew: “מנאמה”
- Hindi: “मनामा”
- Hungarian: “el-Manama”
- Hungarian: “Manama”
- Hungarian: “Manáma”
- Icelandic: “Manama”
- Ido: “Al Manamah”
- Iloko: “Manama”
- Inari Sami: “Manama”
- Indonesian: “Al-Manamah”
- Interlingua: “Manama”
- Interlingue: “Manama”
- Irish: “Manama”
- Italian: “Manama”
- Japanese: “マナーマ”
- Javanese: “Al-Manamah”
- Kabyle: “Manama”
- Kalaallisut: “Manama”
- Kannada: “ಮನಾಮ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Manama”
- Karekare: “Manama”
- Kazakh: “Манама қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Манама”
- Kikuyu: “Manama”
- Kinyarwanda: “Manama”
- Kirghiz: “Манама”
- Komering: “Al-Manamah”
- Korean: “마나마”
- Kurdish: “Mename”
- Latin: “Manama”
- Latvian: “Manāma”
- Ligurian: “Manama”
- Lithuanian: “Manama”
- Lithuanian: “Menama”
- Livvi: “Manama”
- Lombard: “Manama”
- Luxembourgish: “Manama”
- Macedonian: “Манама”
- Magahi: “अल् मनामा”
- Magahi: “मनामा”
- Maithili: “मनामा”
- Malagasy: “Manama”
- Malay: “Manama”
- Malayalam: “മനാമ”
- Maltese: “Manama”
- Marathi: “मनामा”
- Mazanderani: “منامه”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Manama”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Manama”
- Minangkabau: “Manama”
- Mingrelian: “მანამა”
- Moksha: “Манама”
- Mongolian: “Манама”
- Moroccan Arabic: “منامة”
- Nauru: “Manama”
- Nepali: “मनामा”
- Northern Frisian: “Manama”
- Northern Sami: “Manama”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Manama”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Manama”
- Norwegian: “Manama”
- Novial: “Manama”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Manama”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Manama”
- Oriya: “ମାନାମା”
- Ossetian: “Манамæ”
- Panjabi: “ਮਨਾਮਾ”
- Papiamento: “Manama”
- Persian: “منامه”
- Piemontese: “Manama”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Manaama”
- Polish: “Manama”
- Portuguese: “Manama”
- Pushto: “منامه”
- Romanian: “Manama”
- Romansh: “Manama”
- Russian: “Манама”
- Santali: “ᱢᱟᱱᱟᱢᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Manama”
- Scots: “Manama”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Manama”
- Serbian: “Манама”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Manama”
- Shona: “Manama”
- Sicilian: “Manama”
- Sindhi: “منامه”
- Sinhala: “මැනමා”
- Skolt Sami: “Manama”
- Slovak: “Manáma”
- Slovenian: “Manama”
- South Azerbaijani: “منامه”
- Spanish: “Manama”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵏⴰⵎⴰ”
- Sundanese: “Al-Manamah”
- Swahili: “Manama”
- Swedish: “Manama”
- Swiss German: “Manama”
- Tagalog: “Manama”
- Tajik: “Манама”
- Tajik: “Манома”
- Talysh: “Manama”
- Tamil: “மணமா”
- Tamil: “மனாமா”
- Tatar: “Манама”
- Telugu: “మనామా”
- Thai: “มานามา”
- Thai: “รัฐวิสคอนซิน”
- Tibetan: “མ་ན་མ།”
- Turkish: “Manama”
- Turkish: “Mename”
- Turkmen: “Manama”
- Udmurt: “Манама”
- Ukrainian: “Манама”
- Upper Sorbian: “Manama”
- Urdu: “منامہ”
- Uzbek: “Manama”
- Venetian: “Manama”
- Veps: “Manam”
- Vietnamese: “Manama”
- Volapük: “Mänamä”
- Waray (Philippines): “Manama”
- Welsh: “Manama”
- Western Frisian: “Manama”
- Western Panjabi: “مانامہ”
- Western Panjabi: “مناما”
- Western Panjabi: “منامہ”
- Wu Chinese: “麦纳麦”
- Yoruba: “Manama”
- Yue Chinese: “麥納瑪”
- Zulu: “i-Manama”
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