Smara
Smara is a town in Western Sahara. 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.- Type: City with 57,000 residents
- Description: city in Western Sahara
- Also known as: “as-Samāra”, “Es Semara”, “Es Sémara”, “Es Smara”, “Es-Sémara”, “Es-Semara ⵙⵎⴰⵔⴰ السمارة”, “Semara”, “Smar”, “Ес-Смара”, “Семара”, “Эс-Семара”, “Эс-Смара”, “الصحراء الغربية”, “جماعة السمارة”, and “セマラ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Smara Airport.
Smara
- Categories: urban commune of Morocco and locality
- Location: Western Sahara, North Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
MA SMW
Open location code
7CRCP8VP+C5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Smara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “السمارة”
- Aragonese: “Smara”
- Asturian: “Smara”
- Basque: “Smara”
- Belarusian: “Смара”
- Bengali: “স্মারা”
- Bulgarian: “Смара”
- Catalan: “Smara”
- Cebuano: “Smara”
- Chinese: “斯馬拉”
- Chinese: “斯马拉”
- Czech: “Smara”
- Danish: “Smara”
- Dutch: “Smara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “السماره”
- Esperanto: “Smara”
- Estonian: “Es-Smara”
- Finnish: “Smara”
- French: “Es-Semara”
- French: “Smara”
- Galician: “Smara”
- German: “Esmara”
- German: “Smara”
- Greek: “Σμάρα”
- Gujarati: “સ્મારા”
- Hebrew: “סמארה”
- Hindi: “स्मारा”
- Indonesian: “Smara”
- Italian: “Smara”
- Japanese: “スマラ”
- 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”
- Portuguese: “Smara”
- Russian: “Смара”
- Scots: “Smara”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Smara”
- Sinhala: “ස්මරා”
- South Azerbaijani: “سماره”
- Spanish: “Esmara”
- Swedish: “Smara”
- Tamil: “சமாரா”
- Telugu: “స్మర”
- Thai: “สมารา”
- Turkish: “Simara”
- Turkish: “Smara”
- Ukrainian: “Ес-Семара”
- Urdu: “السمارہ”
- Urdu: “سمارا”
- Vietnamese: “Smara”
- “Es-Semara”
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