Samarra
Samarra is a city in Iraq's Baghdad Belts. In 2007, UNESCO named Samarra one of its World Heritage Sites.
- Type: City with 308,000 residents
- Description: city in Iraq
- Also known as: “ciudad arqueologica de Samarra”, “ciudad arqueológica de Samarra”, “Cultura de Samarra”, “Saimarreh”, “Sāmarrā”, “Samarra‘”, “Samarrah”, “Sāmarrah”, “Semarra”, “Semerra”, “Ville archéologique de Samarra”, “Σαμάρρα”, “Самара (Ірак)”, “סאמארא”, “סמארא”, “סמראא”, “الكافي”, “المهدي عند الشيعة”, “سامرا، عراق”, “سامرّاء”, “سامراء|”, “سامرائ”, “سامره”, “سر من رأى”, “مدينة العسكريين”, “مدينة سامراء”, “مرقدي الإمامين علي الهادي والحسن العسكري”, “واسألوا أهل الذكر”, “समारा”, “স্যামাররা”, “சாமரா”, and “サマラ文化 (銅器時代)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Great Mosque of Samarra and Al-Askari Shrine.
Samarra
- Categories: archaeological site, big city, and locality
- Location: Al-Daur District, Salah ad Din Governorate, Baghdad Belts, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.1957° or 34° 11′ 45″ north
Longitude
43.8893° or 43° 53′ 21″ east
Population
308,000
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IQ SAM
Open location code
8H655VWQ+7P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Samarra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سامراء”
- Armenian: “Սամարա”
- Armenian: “Սամարրա”
- Asturian: “Samarra”
- Azerbaijani: “Samərra”
- Azerbaijani: “Səmərra”
- Bashkir: “Сәмәррә”
- Basque: “Samarra”
- Belarusian: “Самара”
- Bengali: “সামাররা”
- Bengali: “সামারা”
- Bulgarian: “Самара”
- Burmese: “ဆမ်မာရာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Samarra”
- Cebuano: “Sāmarrā‘”
- Cebuano: “Sāmarrā’”
- Central Kurdish: “سامەڕا”
- Chinese: “萨迈拉”
- Chinese: “薩邁拉”
- Croatian: “Samarra”
- Czech: “Sámarrá”
- Dagbani: “Samarra”
- Danish: “Samarra”
- Dimli (individual language): “Samarra”
- Dutch: “Samarra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سامرا”
- Esperanto: “Samaro”
- Estonian: “Sāmarrā‘”
- Estonian: “Sāmarrā’”
- Fanti: “Samarra”
- Farefare: “Samarra”
- Finnish: “Samarra”
- French: “Samarra”
- Galician: “Samarra”
- Georgian: “სამარა”
- German: “Samarra”
- Greek: “Σαμάρα”
- Gujarati: “સમારા”
- Hebrew: “סאמרא”
- Hindi: “सामर्रा”
- Hungarian: “Szamarra”
- Indonesian: “Samarra”
- Interlingua: “Samarra”
- Irish: “Samarra”
- Italian: “Samarra”
- Japanese: “サーマッラー”
- Kannada: “ಸಮರ”
- Kashmiri: “سامرا”
- Kazakh: “Samarra”
- Kazakh: “Самарра”
- Kazakh: “ساماررا”
- Korean: “사마라”
- Kurdish: “Samerra”
- Kurdish: “Semara”
- Latin: “Suma”
- Latvian: “Sāmarra”
- Lithuanian: “Samara”
- Lombard: “Samarra”
- Macedonian: “Самара”
- Malay: “Samarra”
- Maltese: “Samarra”
- Marathi: “समरा”
- Mazanderani: “سامرا”
- Mongolian: “Самарра”
- Mossi: “Samarra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samarra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samarra”
- Norwegian: “Samarra”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਮਰਾ”
- Persian: “سامرا”
- Polish: “Samarra”
- Portuguese: “Samarra”
- Romanian: “Samarra”
- Russian: “Самарра”
- Saraiki: “سامرا”
- Scots: “Samarra”
- Serbian: “Самара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Samarra”
- Silesian: “Samarra”
- Sinhala: “සමර්රා”
- Slovak: “Sámarrá’”
- Slovak: “Samarra”
- Slovenian: “Samara, Irak”
- Slovenian: “Samara”
- Spanish: “Samarra”
- Swedish: “Samarra”
- Tajik: “Сомарро”
- Tamil: “சாமர்ரா”
- Tatar: “Самәрраэ”
- Telugu: “సమర్రా”
- Thai: “ซามัรรออ์”
- Thai: “ซามารา”
- Turkish: “Samarra”
- Twi: “Samarra na ɔkyerɛwee”
- Ukrainian: “Самарра”
- Urdu: “سامراء”
- Uzbek: “Samarra”
- Venetian: “Samarra”
- Vietnamese: “Samarra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samarra”
- Welsh: “Samarra”
- Western Frisian: “Samarra”
- Western Panjabi: “سامارا”
- Wu Chinese: “萨迈拉”
- Yue Chinese: “薩邁拉”
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