North Africa
Libya
Sirte District

Surt

Surt is a city in , best known as Muammar Gaddhafi's hometown. Prior to the civil war of 2011 it was bestowed with a number of governmental edifices subsequently destroyed by NATO aerial bombardment, relentless shelling by NTC rebel forces and then…
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  • Type: City with 48,500 residents
  • Description: coastal city in Libya
  • Also known as: “Gasr Zaafrán”, “Macomades-Euphranta”, “Qaşr Sirt”, “Qaşr Za‘farān”, “Sert”, “Sirt”, “Sirte”, and “بلدية سرت”

Surt

Latitude
31.206° or 31° 12′ 22″ north
Longitude
16.5836° or 16° 35′ 1″ east
Population
48,500
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
SRX
United Nations Location Codes
LY SRT and LY SRX
Open location code
8F3R6H4M+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299616414
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2210554
Wiki­data ID
Q162413
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Surt” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sirt”
  • Afrikaans: “Sirte”
  • Afrikaans: “Surt”
  • Albanian: “Sërt”
  • Albanian: “Sirtë”
  • Arabic: “سرت”
  • Arabic: “شعبية سرت”
  • Armenian: “Սիրտ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sirt”
  • Basque: “Sirte”
  • Belarusian: “Сірт”
  • Belarusian: “Сырт”
  • Bengali: “সিরতে”
  • Bengali: “সির্ত”
  • Bulgarian: “Сирт”
  • Catalan: “Sirt”
  • Catalan: “Sirte”
  • Catalan: “Surt”
  • Cebuano: “Sirte”
  • Chinese: “Sirte”
  • Chinese: “苏尔特”
  • Chinese: “蘇爾特”
  • Chinese: “蘇特”
  • Czech: “Sirt”
  • Czech: “Sirta”
  • Czech: “Sirte”
  • Czech: “Syrta”
  • Czech: “Syrte”
  • Danish: “Sirte”
  • Dutch: “Sirte”
  • Dutch: “Surt”
  • Dutch: “Syrte”
  • Esperanto: “Sirt”
  • Esperanto: “Sirto”
  • Estonian: “Sirte”
  • Estonian: “Surt”
  • Finnish: “Sirt”
  • Finnish: “Sirte”
  • Finnish: “Syrt”
  • French: “Syrte”
  • Georgian: “სირთი”
  • Georgian: “სურთი”
  • German: “Sirt”
  • German: “Sirte”
  • German: “Surt”
  • German: “Syrte”
  • Greek: “Σύρτη”
  • Gujarati: “સિર્ટ”
  • Gujarati: “સિર્તે”
  • Hebrew: “סירט”
  • Hebrew: “סירת”
  • Hebrew: “סרת”
  • Hindi: “सिर्त”
  • Hindi: “सिर्ते”
  • Hungarian: “Szurt”
  • Indonesian: “Sirte”
  • Interlingue: “Sirte”
  • Irish: “Sirte”
  • Italian: “Sirte”
  • Japanese: “シルテ”
  • Japanese: “シルト”
  • Japanese: “スルト”
  • Javanese: “Sirte”
  • Kabyle: “Surt”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿರ್ಟೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Sïrt”
  • Kazakh: “Сирт”
  • Kazakh: “سىيرت”
  • Korean: “수르트”
  • Korean: “시르테”
  • Korean: “시르트”
  • Latvian: “Sirta”
  • Lithuanian: “Sideris”
  • Lithuanian: “Surt”
  • Lithuanian: “Surtas”
  • Malay: “Sirte”
  • Malay: “Surt”
  • Maltese: “Sirt”
  • Marathi: “सरते”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sirte”
  • Moksha: “Сырт”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sirte”
  • Ossetian: “Сирт”
  • Ossetian: “Сурт”
  • Persian: “سرت، لیبی”
  • Persian: “سرت”
  • Polish: “Syrta”
  • Portuguese: “Sirte”
  • Portuguese: “Surt”
  • Romanian: “Sirt”
  • Russian: “Сирт”
  • Russian: “Сурт”
  • Scots: “Sirt”
  • Scots: “Sirte”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sirte”
  • Serbian: “Sirt”
  • Serbian: “Сирт”
  • Serbian: “سرت”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sirt”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Surt”
  • Silesian: “Syrta”
  • Sinhala: “සර්ටේ”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ර්ටේ”
  • Slovak: “Syrta”
  • Slovenian: “Sirta”
  • Slovenian: “Sirte”
  • Slovenian: “Surt”
  • Spanish: “Sirt”
  • Spanish: “Sirte”
  • Spanish: “Syrte”
  • Swahili: “Sirte”
  • Swedish: “Sirt”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Surt”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Сурт”
  • Talysh: “Sirt”
  • Tamil: “சிர்டே”
  • Tamil: “சிர்ட்”
  • Telugu: “సిర్ట్”
  • Thai: “เซิร์ต”
  • Thai: “เซิร์ท”
  • Turkish: “Sirte”
  • Ukrainian: “Сирт”
  • Ukrainian: “Сирти”
  • Urdu: “سرت”
  • Vietnamese: “Sirt”
  • Vietnamese: “Sirte”
  • Vietnamese: “Surt”
  • Volapük: “Surt”
  • Volapük: “Surtän”
  • Volapük: “Surtiän”
  • Welsh: “Sirt”
  • Welsh: “Sirte”
  • Welsh: “Syrte”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏尔特（利比亚）”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏尔特”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇爾特”
  • Zulu: “Sirte”

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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 “Surt”. Photo: Chapultepec, Public domain.