North Africa
Libya
Misrata District

Misrata

Misrata is a city in northwestern located in the , situated 187 km to the east of on the Mediterranean coast near Cape Misrata.
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  • Type: City with 600,000 residents
  • Description: city in Libya
  • Also known as: “Madīnat Mişrātah”, “Misratah”, “Misurata”, “Misuratah”, and “Mısrate”

Misrata

Latitude
32.3746° or 32° 22′ 29″ north
Longitude
15.0906° or 15° 5′ 26″ east
Population
600,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
MRA
United Nations Location Codes
LY MIS and LY MRA
Open location code
8F4Q93FR+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5431087789
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
2214846
Wiki­data ID
Q131323
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Misrata” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Misrata”
  • Afrikaans: “Misratah”
  • Afrikaans: “Misurata”
  • Albanian: “Misurata”
  • Arabic: “مسراتا”
  • Arabic: “مصراتة”
  • Arabic: “مصراته”
  • Armenian: “Միսրատա”
  • Asturian: “Misrata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Misrata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Misurata”
  • Basque: “Misratah”
  • Belarusian: “Місрата”
  • Belarusian: “Місурата”
  • Bengali: “মিসরাতা”
  • Breton: “Misrata”
  • Bulgarian: “Мисрата”
  • Bulgarian: “Мисурата”
  • Catalan: “Misratah”
  • Catalan: “Misurata”
  • Cebuano: “Mişrātah”
  • Central Bikol: “Misrata”
  • Chinese: “米苏拉塔”
  • Chinese: “米蘇拉塔”
  • Czech: “Misráta”
  • Czech: “Misuráta”
  • Danish: “Misratah”
  • Dutch: “Misratah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مصراته”
  • Esperanto: “Misrata”
  • Esperanto: “Misurata”
  • Estonian: “Kephale Tobactus”
  • Estonian: “Misratah”
  • Estonian: “Mişrātah”
  • Estonian: “Mistrata”
  • Estonian: “Misurata”
  • Estonian: “Thubactis”
  • Estonian: “Thubaqt”
  • Estonian: “Tobartis”
  • Estonian: “Tubartis”
  • Finnish: “Al Misratah”
  • Finnish: “Al Misrātah”
  • Finnish: “Misrata”
  • Finnish: “Misratah”
  • Finnish: “Misrātah”
  • Finnish: “Misurata”
  • French: “Misrata”
  • French: “Misratah”
  • French: “Misurata”
  • Georgian: “მისრათა”
  • Georgian: “მისრატა”
  • German: “Misrata”
  • German: “Misratah”
  • German: “Misurata”
  • Greek: “Μισράτα”
  • Gujarati: “મિસ્રાટા”
  • Hebrew: “מיסורטה”
  • Hebrew: “מיסראתה”
  • Hebrew: “מיסרטה”
  • Hebrew: “מיסרתה”
  • Hindi: “मिसराता”
  • Hungarian: “Miszráta”
  • Indonesian: “Misratah”
  • Irish: “Misrata”
  • Italian: “Misratah”
  • Italian: “Misurata”
  • Japanese: “ミスラータ”
  • Japanese: “ミスラタ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Misrata”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಸ್ರಾಟಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Mïswrata”
  • Kazakh: “Мисурата”
  • Kazakh: “مىيسۋراتا”
  • Korean: “미수라타”
  • Korean: “미스라타”
  • Latvian: “Misrata”
  • Latvian: “Misrāta”
  • Latvian: “Misratah”
  • Latvian: “Misurata”
  • Lithuanian: “Misrata”
  • Lithuanian: “Misratah”
  • Lithuanian: “Misurata”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Misurata”
  • Malay: “Misratah”
  • Marathi: “मिस्ट्रेट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Misrata”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Misratah”
  • Norwegian: “Misurata”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Misrata”
  • Persian: “مصراته”
  • Piemontese: “Misrata”
  • Polish: “Misrata”
  • Polish: “Misratah”
  • Portuguese: “Misrata”
  • Portuguese: “Misratah”
  • Portuguese: “Misurata”
  • Romanian: “Misrata”
  • Romanian: “Misratah”
  • Romanian: “Misurata”
  • Russian: “Мисрата”
  • Russian: “Мисурата”
  • Scots: “Misrata”
  • Serbian: “Misurata”
  • Serbian: “Мисрата”
  • Serbian: “Мисурата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Misrata”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Misurata”
  • Sicilian: “Misurata”
  • Sinhala: “මිස්රට”
  • Slovak: “Misráta”
  • Slovak: “Misuráta”
  • Spanish: “Misrata”
  • Spanish: “Misratah”
  • Spanish: “Misurata”
  • Swahili: “Misratah”
  • Swedish: “Misrata”
  • Swedish: “Misratah”
  • Tamil: “மிஸ்ராடா”
  • Telugu: “మిస్రాట”
  • Thai: “มิสราทา”
  • Turkish: “Misrata”
  • Turkish: “Mısrata”
  • Turkish: “Mısrate”
  • Ukrainian: “Місурата”
  • Urdu: “مصراتہ”
  • Uzbek: “Misrata”
  • Venetian: “Misurata”
  • Vietnamese: “Misrata”
  • Volapük: “Misratä”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Misrata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Misratah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Misurata”
  • Welsh: “Misrata”
  • Wu Chinese: “米苏拉塔”
  • Yiddish: “מיסוראטאה”
  • Yue Chinese: “米蘇拉塔”
  • Zulu: “Misrata”
  • “Mısrate”

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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 Wikipedia page “Misrata”. Photo: عبدالرحمن عبدالمنعم بعيو, CC BY-SA 4.0.