Mukalla
Mukalla is in the Yemeni Highlands and is eastern Yemen's biggest city, the gateway to the historical Hadhramaut region. A bustling port, it is well developed by Yemeni standards, with good roads and a reasonably smart waterfront.
- Type: City with 177,000 residents
- Description: City in Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen
- Also known as: “Al Mukala”, “Al Mukalla”, “Al Mukalla District”, “Al-Kheesa”, “Al-Mukallā”, “Al-Mukalla District”, “Bandar Al-Naqeeb”, “Bandar Ghalib”, “Bandar Omar”, “Bandar Yaqoub”, “Madīnat al Mukallā”, “Moukalla”, “Mukalla City District”, “الخيصة”, “مديرية مدينة المكلا”, “مدينة المكلا”, and “ムカラ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manawirah and Al-Khalaf.
Mukalla
- Categories: district of Yemen and locality
- Location: Muhafazat Hadramaout, Yemeni Highlands, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.5425° or 14° 32′ 33″ north
Longitude
49.1231° or 49° 7′ 23″ east
Population
177,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
7H6FG4RF+X7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Mukalla” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሙካላ”
- Arabic: “المكلا”
- Asturian: “Muklla”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Mükəlla”
- Azerbaijani: “Mukalla”
- Azerbaijani: “Mukella”
- Basque: “Mukalla”
- Bengali: “মুকাল্লা”
- Catalan: “Mukalla”
- Cebuano: “Al Mukallā”
- Chinese: “穆卡拉”
- Croatian: “Al-Mukalla”
- Czech: “Mukallá”
- Dutch: “Al Mukalla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المكلا”
- Esperanto: “Al-Mukala”
- Finnish: “Al-Mukalla”
- French: “Al Moukalla”
- French: “Al Mukalla”
- German: “Al-Mukalla”
- Greek: “Μουκαλά”
- Hausa: “Mukalla”
- Hebrew: “אל-מוכלא”
- Hindi: “मुकल्ला”
- Hungarian: “Mukalla”
- Indonesian: “Mukalla”
- Irish: “Mukalla”
- Italian: “Al-Mukalla”
- Japanese: “ムカッラ”
- Japanese: “ムカッラー”
- Javanese: “Mukalla”
- Kannada: “ಮುಕಲ್ಲ”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Mwkalla qalası”
- Kazakh: “Мукалла”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Мукалла қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەل-مۋكاللا قالاسى”
- Kirghiz: “Мукалла”
- Korean: “무칼라”
- Lithuanian: “Mukala”
- Madurese: “Mukalla”
- Malay: “Mukalla”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Al Mukalla”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-მუქალა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Mukalla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Mukalla”
- Norwegian: “Al Mukalla”
- Norwegian: “Al-Mukalla”
- Oromo: “Mukalla”
- Ossetian: “Эль-Мукалла”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁਕੱਲਾ”
- Persian: “مکلا”
- Polish: “Al-Mukalla”
- Portuguese: “Al Mukalla”
- Portuguese: “Mucala”
- Portuguese: “Mukala”
- Pushto: “المکلا”
- Romanian: “Al Mukalla”
- Russian: “Аль-Мукалла”
- Russian: “Эль-Мукалла”
- Scots: “Al Mukalla”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Mukala”
- Slovak: “Al-Mukallá”
- Slovenian: “Mukala”
- Somali: “Al Mukalla”
- Somali: “Muqadisho”
- Spanish: “Al Mukalla”
- Spanish: “Mukalla”
- Swahili: “Mukalla”
- Swedish: “Al-Mukalla”
- Tajik: “Мукалла”
- Tamil: “முகல்லா”
- Tatar: “Мукалла”
- Thai: “อัลมุกัลลา”
- Turkish: “El-Mükella”
- Turkish: “El-Mukelle”
- Turkish: “Mukalla”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Мукалла”
- Urdu: “المکلا”
- Uzbek: “Mukolla”
- Venetian: “Al-Mukalla”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Mukalla”
- Vietnamese: “Mukalla”
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