Sharjah

Sharjah is the third largest city in the and the capital of . Sharjah is known for its Arabic and Islamic architecture as well as its libraries, Islamic museums, and cultural centers.
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  • City with 1,400,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 15 metres (49 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SHJ
  • Description: city in the United Arab Emirates
  • Also known as
    “Al Sharjah”
    “Ash ’Mariqah”
    “Ash Shāriqa”
    “Ash Shāriqah”
    “Sharga”
    “Shārijah”
    “Shāriqah”
    “Shārja”
    “Sharjah city”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sharjah Stadium and Al Noor Mosque.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Mosque
is a mosque in Sharjah, the …

Sharjah

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Latitude
25.3462° or 25° 20′ 46″ north
Longitude
55.4211° or 55° 25′ 16″ east
UN/LOCODE
AE SHJ
Open location code
7HQQ8CWC+FC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 847933749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
292672
Wiki­data ID
Q289693

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sharjah” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sharjah”
  • Albanian: “Sharxha”
  • Amharic: “ሻርጃ”
  • Arabic: “إمارة الشارقة”
  • Arabic: “الشارقة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الشارقة”
  • Armenian: “Շարժա”
  • Armenian: “Շարջա”
  • Arpitan: “Ch·ardj·a”
  • Asturian: “Sharjah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şarja”
  • Basque: “Xarja”
  • Belarusian: “Шарджа”
  • Bengali: “শারজাহ”
  • Breton: “Charjah”
  • Bulgarian: “Шарджа”
  • Catalan: “Xarjah”
  • Cebuano: “Sharjah”
  • Central Kurdish: “شارجە”
  • Central Kurdish: “شارقە”
  • Chinese: “夏尔迦”
  • Chinese: “沙加”
  • Chinese: “沙迦”
  • Croatian: “Šardža”
  • Croatian: “Sharjah (grad)”
  • Croatian: “Sharjah”
  • Czech: “Šardžá”
  • Dagbani: “Sharjah”
  • Danish: “Sharjah”
  • Dutch: “Sharjah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الشارقه”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝarjo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝarĵo”
  • Estonian: “Ash-Shāriqah emiraat”
  • Finnish: “Sharja”
  • French: “Charjah”
  • French: “Sharjah”
  • Galician: “Sharjah”
  • Georgian: “შარჯა”
  • German: “asch-Schariqa”
  • German: “Schardscha”
  • German: “Sharjah”
  • Greek: “Σάρτζα”
  • Hausa: “Sharjah (birni)”
  • Hausa: “Sharjah”
  • Hebrew: “שארג’ה”
  • Hebrew: “שארג׳ה”
  • Hebrew: “שארגה”
  • Hindi: “शारजा”
  • Hindi: “शारजाह”
  • Hungarian: “Sardzsa”
  • Indonesian: “Sharjah”
  • Interlingue: “Sharjah”
  • Irish: “Sharjah”
  • Italian: “Sharja”
  • Italian: “Sharjah”
  • Japanese: “シャールジャ”
  • Japanese: “シャールジャ市”
  • Javanese: “Sharjah”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sharjah”
  • Kannada: “ಶಾರ್ಜ”
  • Kannada: “ಶಾರ್ಜಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Шарджа”
  • Kirghiz: “Шарджа”
  • Korean: “샤르자”
  • Kurdish: “Şarîqe”
  • Latvian: “Šārdža”
  • Latvian: “Sharjah”
  • Lithuanian: “Šardža”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schardscha”
  • Macedonian: “Шарџа”
  • Malagasy: “Sharjah”
  • Malay: “Sharjah”
  • Malayalam: “ഷാർജ”
  • Maltese: “Sharjah”
  • Marathi: “शारजा”
  • Mazanderani: “شارجه (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “شارجه”
  • Mingrelian: “შარჯა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sharjah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sharjah”
  • Norwegian: “Sharjah”
  • Oromo: “Sharjah”
  • Ossetian: “Шарджæ (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Шарджæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਰਜਾ”
  • Persian: “شارجه”
  • Polish: “Szardża”
  • Portuguese: “Sharjah”
  • Portuguese: “Xarja”
  • Pushto: “شارجه”
  • Romanian: “Sharjah”
  • Russian: “Аш-Шарджа”
  • Russian: “Шарджа”
  • Scots: “Sharjah”
  • Serbian: “Шарџа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šardža”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sharjah”
  • Slovenian: “Šardža”
  • Slovenian: “Sharjah”
  • Somali: “Sharjah”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شارجه”
  • Spanish: “Sarja”
  • Swahili: “Sharjah”
  • Swedish: “Sharja”
  • Swedish: “Sharjah”
  • Tagalog: “Sharjah”
  • Tajik: “Шарджа”
  • Tamil: “சார்ஜா”
  • Tatar: “Шарҗә”
  • Telugu: “షార్జా”
  • Thai: “ชัรญะฮ์”
  • Thai: “ชาร์จาห์”
  • Turkish: “Şarika”
  • Turkish: “Şârika”
  • Uighur: “شارجا”
  • Ukrainian: “Шарджа”
  • Urdu: “شارجہ (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “شارجہ”
  • Uzbek: “Sharja”
  • Uzbek: “Sharjah”
  • Venetian: “Sharja”
  • Vietnamese: “Sharjah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sharjah”
  • Western Armenian: “Շարճա”
  • Western Panjabi: “شارجا”
  • Western Panjabi: “شارجہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “沙迦 (城市)”
  • Wu Chinese: “沙迦（城市）”
  • Yakut: “Шарджа куорат”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙迦”

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