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Smara

Smara is a town in . There is a strong Sahrawi presence in the town. There is an equally strong Moroccan military presence in the town. This situation creates some tension.
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  • Type: City with 57,000 residents
  • Description: city in Western Sahara
  • Also known as: “as-Samāra”, “Es Semara”, “Esmara”, “Semara”, and “Smar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Smara Airport.

Aerodrome
is an in Smara, a city in .

Smara

Latitude
26.7436° or 26° 44′ 37″ north
Longitude
-11.6645° or 11° 39′ 52″ west
Population
57,000
Elevation
188 metres (617 feet)
IATA airport code
SMW
United Nations Location Code
MA SMW
Open location code
7CRCP8VP+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 569755163
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2461874
Wiki­data ID
Q842810
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Smara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “السمارة”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الغربية”
  • Arabic: “جماعة السمارة”
  • Asturian: “Smara”
  • Basque: “Smara”
  • Belarusian: “Смара”
  • Bengali: “স্মারা”
  • Bulgarian: “Смара”
  • Catalan: “Smara”
  • Cebuano: “Smara”
  • Chinese: “斯馬拉”
  • Chinese: “斯马拉”
  • Czech: “Semara”
  • Czech: “Smara”
  • Danish: “Smara”
  • Dutch: “Es-Semara”
  • Dutch: “Smara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السماره”
  • Esperanto: “Semara”
  • Esperanto: “Smara”
  • Estonian: “Es-Smara”
  • Finnish: “Smara”
  • French: “Es Semara”
  • French: “Es Sémara”
  • French: “Es-Semara”
  • French: “Es-Sémara”
  • French: “Esmara”
  • French: “Smara”
  • Galician: “Smara”
  • German: “as-Samāra”
  • German: “Es Semara”
  • German: “Esmara”
  • German: “Semara”
  • German: “Smara”
  • Greek: “Σμάρα”
  • Gujarati: “સ્મારા”
  • Hebrew: “סמארה”
  • Hindi: “स्मारा”
  • Indonesian: “Smara”
  • Italian: “Smara”
  • Japanese: “スマラ”
  • Japanese: “セマラ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಮಾರ”
  • Kazakh: “Smara qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Смара қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Смара”
  • Kazakh: “سمارا قالاسى”
  • Korean: “스마라”
  • Latvian: “Smara”
  • Lithuanian: “Smara”
  • Malay: “Smara”
  • Maltese: “Smara”
  • Marathi: “स्मारा”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “السمارة”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Smara”
  • Persian: “سماره”
  • Polish: “As-Samara”
  • Polish: “Asmara”
  • Polish: “Es Semara”
  • Polish: “Semara”
  • Polish: “Smara”
  • Portuguese: “Es Semara”
  • Portuguese: “Es-Semara”
  • Portuguese: “Esmara”
  • Portuguese: “Semara”
  • Portuguese: “Smara”
  • Russian: “Семара”
  • Russian: “Смара”
  • Russian: “Эс-Семара”
  • Russian: “Эс-Смара”
  • Scots: “Smara”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Smara”
  • Sinhala: “ස්මරා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سماره”
  • Spanish: “Es Smara”
  • Spanish: “Esmara”
  • Spanish: “Semara”
  • Spanish: “Smara”
  • Swedish: “Es Semara”
  • Swedish: “Es Smara”
  • Swedish: “Es-Semara”
  • Swedish: “Es-Smara”
  • Swedish: “Smara”
  • Tamil: “சமாரா”
  • Telugu: “స్మర”
  • Thai: “สมารา”
  • Turkish: “Simara”
  • Turkish: “Smara”
  • Ukrainian: “Ес-Семара”
  • Ukrainian: “Ес-Смара”
  • Ukrainian: “Семара”
  • Ukrainian: “Смара”
  • Urdu: “السمارہ”
  • Urdu: “سمارا”
  • Vietnamese: “Smara”
  • “Es-Semara”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Smara”. Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.