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Manama

Manama

Manama is the capital and largest city of , with its 700,000 people representing nearly half the country's population. Overshadowed by its brash Gulf neighbors and , 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.
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  • Type: City with 157,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Bahrain
  • Also known as: “Al Manāma”, “Al Manāmah”, “al-Manāmah”, and “Manameh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al Fateh Grand Mosque and Bait Al Quran.

Mosque
Photo: أبو الشاي حليب, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Al-Fateh Mosque, also known as the Al-Fateh Islamic Center and as the , is a large , located in Manama, . Encompassing 6,500 square metres, with the capacity to accommodate over 7,000 worshippers at a time, it was one of the largest mosques in the world.

Museum
Photo: Ibrahim.ID, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Beit Al Qur'an is a multi-purpose complex dedicated to the Islamic arts and is located in , . Established in 1990, the complex is most famous for its Islamic , which has been acknowledged as being one of the most renowned Islamic museums in the world.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bab Al is a historical building located in the Customs Square in the central business district of Manama. It marks the main entrance to the Manama Souq.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Muharraq and Bahrain Financial Harbor.

Photo: StellarD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a metropolitan area in , an island connected to the northeast of the capital of Manama.

Neighborhood
Bahrain Financial Harbour is a waterfront commercial development project located on the northern shore of Manama, the capital city of . Costing $1.5 billion and covering an area of 380,000 square metres, the two main Harbour Towers were officially opened in May 2007.

Suburb
Photo: Shijaz, Public domain.
Hoora a district of Manama, the capital of . Along with the Central Business District, , and , Hoora is considered one of Manama's nightlife centres, with many bars, hotels, restaurants, pubs and nightclubs, and it is very popular among visitors from Saudi Arabia.

Manama

Latitude
26.2235° or 26° 13′ 25″ north
Longitude
50.5822° or 50° 34′ 56″ east
Population
157,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
WGF
United Nations Location Code
BH AMH
Open location code
7HRG6HFJ+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 38903284
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
290340
Wiki­data ID
Q3882
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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: “Manama”
  • 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: “अल मनमा”
  • 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”
  • Kabyle: “Manama”
  • Kalaallisut: “Manama”
  • Kannada: “ಮನಾಮ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “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”
  • 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”
  • Telugu: “మనామా”
  • Thai: “มานามา”
  • Thai: “รัฐวิสคอนซิน”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ན་མ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Manama”
  • 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”
  • “Al-Manamah”
  • “Manāmah”

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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 “Manama”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.