Sharjah
Sharjah is the third largest city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of Sharjah emirate. Sharjah is known for its Arabic and Islamic architecture as well as its libraries, Islamic museums, and cultural centers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 1,400,000 residents
- Description: city in the United Arab Emirates
- Also known as: “Al Sharjah”, “Ash ’Mariqah”, “Ash Shāriqa”, “Ash Shāriqah”, “Sharga”, “Shārijah”, “Shāriqah”, “Shārja”, and “Sharjah city”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sharjah Stadium and Al Noor Mosque.
Sharjah Stadium
Stadium
Sharjah Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Sharjah FC. The stadium has a capacity of 18,000.
Al Noor Mosque
Mosque
Al Noor Mosque is a mosque in Sharjah, the U.A.E., located on the Khaled lagoon at the Buhaira Corniche. It is of Turkish Ottoman design and was influenced by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Turkey.
Sharjah
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.3462° or 25° 20′ 46″ northLongitude
55.4211° or 55° 25′ 16″ eastPopulation
1,400,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
SHJUnited Nations Location Code
AE SHJOpen location code
7HQQ8CWC+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 847933749OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
292672Wikidata ID
Q289693
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sharjah” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sharjah”
- Albanian: “Sharxha”
- 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: “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”
- Kalaallisut: “Sharjah”
- Kannada: “ಶಾರ್ಜ”
- Kannada: “ಶಾರ್ಜಾ”
- 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”
- 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”
- South Azerbaijani: “شارجه”
- Spanish: “Sarja”
- Swedish: “Sharja”
- Swedish: “Sharjah”
- Tagalog: “Sharjah”
- 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”
- 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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