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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Abo Yemen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 177,000 residents
- Description: City in Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen
- Also known as: “Al Mukalla”, “Al Mukalla District”, “Al-Kheesa”, “Al-Mukalla”, “Al-Mukalla District”, “Bandar Al-Naqeeb”, “Bandar Ghalib”, “Bandar Omar”, “Bandar Yaqoub”, “Madīnat al Mukallā”, and “Mukalla City District”
Photo: Email4mobile, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manawirah and Al-Khalaf.
Manawirah
Neighborhood
Manawirah is a village in eastern Yemen. It is located in the Hadhramaut Governorate.
Al-Khalaf
Suburb
Al-Khalaf is a village in east-central Yemen. It is located in the Hadhramaut Governorate.
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″ northLongitude
49.1231° or 49° 7′ 23″ eastPopulation
177,000Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)Open location code
7H6FG4RF+X7OpenStreetMap ID
node 4298024474OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
78754Wikidata ID
Q310772
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mukalla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الخيصة”
- Arabic: “المكلا”
- Arabic: “مديرية مدينة المكلا”
- Arabic: “مدينة المكلا”
- Asturian: “Muklla”
- Azerbaijani: “Mukalla”
- Basque: “Mukalla”
- Catalan: “Al-Mukalla”
- Catalan: “Mukalla”
- Cebuano: “Al Mukallā”
- Chinese: “Al Mukalla”
- Chinese: “穆卡拉”
- Croatian: “Al-Mukalla”
- Czech: “Mukallá”
- Dutch: “Al Mukalla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المكلا”
- Esperanto: “Al Mukala”
- Esperanto: “Al-Mukala”
- Finnish: “Al Mukalla”
- Finnish: “Al-Mukalla”
- French: “Al Moukalla”
- French: “Al Mukalla”
- French: “Al-Mukalla”
- French: “Moukalla”
- German: “Al-Mukalla”
- German: “Mukalla”
- Greek: “Μουκαλά”
- Hebrew: “אל-מוכלא”
- Hindi: “मुकल्ला”
- Hungarian: “Mukalla”
- Indonesian: “Mukalla”
- Irish: “Mukalla”
- Italian: “Al Mukalla”
- Italian: “Al-Mukalla”
- Japanese: “ムカッラー”
- Japanese: “ムカラ”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Mwkalla qalası”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Мукалла қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەل-مۋكاللا قالاسى”
- 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”
- Ossetian: “Эль-Мукалла”
- Persian: “مکلا”
- Polish: “Al-Mukalla”
- Portuguese: “Al Mukalla”
- Portuguese: “Mucala”
- Romanian: “Al Mukalla”
- Russian: “Аль-Мукалла”
- Russian: “Мукалла”
- Russian: “Эль-Мукалла”
- Scots: “Al Mukalla”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Mukala”
- Slovak: “Al-Mukallá”
- Slovenian: “Mukala”
- Somali: “Al Mukalla”
- Spanish: “Al Mukalla”
- Swedish: “Al Mukalla”
- Swedish: “Al-Mukalla”
- Swedish: “Al-Mukallā”
- Swedish: “Mukalla”
- Tamil: “முகல்லா”
- Thai: “อัลมุกัลลา”
- Turkish: “El-Mükella”
- Turkish: “El-Mukelle”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Мукалла”
- Urdu: “المکلا”
- Venetian: “Al-Mukalla”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Mukalla”
- Vietnamese: “Mukalla”
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