Abu Musa
Abu Musa is an 12.8-square-kilometre island in the eastern Persian Gulf, near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. The island is currently administered by Iran, but its sovereignty is disputed by the United Arab Emirates.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Municipality with 4,210 residents
- Description: island in Abumusa County, Iran
- Also known as: “Abu Musa Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abu Musa and Abu Musa Airport.
Abu Musa
Island
Photo: Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0.
Abu Musa is a city in the Central District of Abumusa County, Hormozgan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Abu Musa Airport
Aerodrome
Abu Musa
- Categories: island, disputed territory, and locality
- Location: United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.8845° or 25° 53′ 4″ northLongitude
55.0295° or 55° 1′ 46″ eastPopulation
4,210Open location code
7HQQV2MH+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 11101367579OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityWikidata ID
Q167217
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Abu Musa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبو موسى”
- Arabic: “جزيرة أبو موسى”
- Armenian: “Աբու Մուսա”
- Azerbaijani: “Əbu Musa adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Əbu Musa”
- Basque: “Abu Musa”
- Belarusian: “Абу Муса”
- Belarusian: “Абу-Муса”
- Bengali: “আবু মুসা দ্বীপ”
- Catalan: “Abu Musa”
- Cebuano: “Abu Musa Island”
- Chinese: “阿布穆萨岛”
- Chinese: “阿布穆薩島”
- Croatian: “Abu Musa”
- Czech: “Abú Músá”
- Danish: “Abu Musa”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ebu Musa”
- Dutch: “Abu Musa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة أبوموسى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة ابوموسى”
- Finnish: “Abu Musa”
- French: “Abou Moussa”
- French: “Abou-Moussa”
- German: “Abu Musa”
- Gilaki: “ابوموسی”
- Greek: “Αμπού Μούσα”
- Hebrew: “אבו מוסא”
- Hungarian: “Abu Musza sziget”
- Hungarian: “Abu Musza-sziget”
- Hungarian: “Abu Musza”
- Indonesian: “Abu Musa”
- Italian: “Abu Musa”
- Japanese: “アブー・ムーサー島”
- Korean: “아부 무사”
- Korean: “아부무사”
- Korean: “아부무사섬”
- Lithuanian: “Abu Musa”
- Mazanderani: “ابوموسی”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abu Musa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abu Musa”
- Persian: “ابوموسی”
- Persian: “بوموسی”
- Persian: “جزیره ابوموسی”
- Persian: “جزیره بوموسی”
- Polish: “Abu Musa”
- Portuguese: “Abu Musa”
- Pushto: “ابو موسی ټاپو”
- Pushto: “بوموسی ټاپو”
- Pushto: “د ابوموسی ټاپو”
- Russian: “Абу-Муса”
- Russian: “Джазират-Бу-Муса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abu Musa”
- South Azerbaijani: “ابوموسی”
- Spanish: “Abu Musa”
- Swedish: “Abu Musa”
- Turkish: “Abu Musa”
- Turkish: “Ebu Musa”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ ابو موسی”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ ابو موسیٰ”
- Uzbek: “Abu-Muso”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ ابو موسی”
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