Ashar Creek

Ashar Creek is a locality in Basra Governorate, Iraq. Ashar Creek is situated nearby to the locality Nahr ash Shutaybi, as well as near the village Al-Ashar.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basra International Hotel and Basra Museum.

Basra International Hotel

Hotel

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The Basra International Hotel is a hotel on Shatt al-Arab bank in Al Ashar District, in Basrah, Iraq. The hotel was built in 1981 as the Basrah Sheraton Hotel & Casino.

Basra Museum

Museum

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The Basrah Museum is a museum in the Iraqi city of Basra, It is located on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab some 3 km south‐east of Basra’s historic city centre. Basra Museum is situated 3½ km southeast of Ashar Creek.

Basra War Cemetery

Cemetery

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Basra War Cemetery is a military cemetery in Basra, Iraq. Originally a small civil cemetery, it was greatly enlarged during the First World War and contains 2,890 graves, the majority of which are Commonwealth casualties killed during the Mesopotamian campaign.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Basra.

Basra

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Basra is a port city in Southern Iraq, close to the border with Kuwait and Iran. It is Iraq's third largest city with a population of 2,150,000.

Ashar Creek

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Ashar Creek, Nahr al Ashshār, نهر العشار, Ashar Creek, Nahr al Ashshar, نهر العشار”
Category: stream
Location: Basra Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

30.52264° or 30° 31′ 22″ north

Longitude

47.84074° or 47° 50′ 27″ east

Open location code

8H29GRFR+37

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2487918797

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=stream

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to German—“Ashar Creek” goes by many names.

Arabic: “نهر العشار”
French: “Ashar Creek”
German: “Ashar Creek”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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