Umm Qasr
Umm Qasr is a port city in southern Iraq. It stands on the canalised Khawr az-Zubayr, part of the Khawr Abd Allah estuary which leads to the Persian Gulf.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 108,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Omolgasr” and “Umm Qasr - أم قصر”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Northern Umm Qasr Port.
Northern Umm Qasr Port
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Umm Qasr Port is Iraq's only deep water port, part of the city of Umm Qasr. Iraq's second biggest port in scale of size and goods shipped, ranking behind the port of Basra, it is strategically important, located on the western edge of the al-Faw peninsula, where the mouth of the Shatt al Arab waterway enters the Persian Gulf.
Umm Qasr
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Al-Zubair District, Basra Governorate, Southern Iraq, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.0323° or 30° 1′ 56″ northLongitude
47.9215° or 47° 55′ 17″ eastPopulation
108,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
8H292WJC+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 297446410OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
89824Wikidata ID
Q842407
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Umm Qasr” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أم القصر”
- Arabic: “أم قصر”
- Arabic: “ام قصر”
- Arabic: “ناحية ام قصر”
- Asturian: “Umm Qasr”
- Azerbaijani: “Umm-Kəsr”
- Basque: “Umm Qasr”
- Bulgarian: “Ум Касър”
- Cebuano: “Umm Qaşr”
- Chinese: “乌姆盖萨尔”
- Chinese: “烏姆蓋斯爾”
- Chinese: “烏姆蓋薩爾”
- Czech: “Umm Kasr”
- Danish: “Umm Qasr”
- Dutch: “Umm Qasr”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ام قصر”
- Esperanto: “Um-Kasr”
- Estonian: “Umm Qasr”
- Estonian: “Umm Qaşr”
- Finnish: “Umm Qasr”
- French: “Umm Qasr”
- German: “Umm Kasr”
- German: “Umm Qasr”
- Hebrew: “אום קאסר”
- Hebrew: “אום קסר”
- Hindi: “उम्म कसर”
- Hungarian: “Umm Kaszr”
- Hungarian: “Umm Kászr”
- Icelandic: “Umm Qasr”
- Indonesian: “Umm Qashr”
- Irish: “Umm Qasr”
- Italian: “Umm Qasr”
- Japanese: “ウム・カスル”
- Japanese: “ウムカスル”
- Japanese: “ウンム・カスル”
- Japanese: “ウンムカスル”
- Kazakh: “Wmm-Kasr”
- Kazakh: “Умм-Каср”
- Kazakh: “ۋمم-كاسر”
- Korean: “움카스르”
- Kurdish: “Um Qesir”
- Lithuanian: “Um Kasras”
- Malay: “Umm Qashr”
- Malay: “Umm Qasr”
- Mazanderani: “ام قصر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Umm Qasr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Umm Qasr”
- Norwegian: “Umm Qasr”
- Persian: “ام القصر”
- Persian: “ام قصر”
- Polish: “Umm Kasr”
- Polish: “Umm Qasr”
- Portuguese: “Umm Qasr”
- Romanian: “Umm Qasr”
- Russian: “Ум-Каср”
- Russian: “Умм-Каср”
- Spanish: “Um Kasar”
- Swedish: “Umm Qasr”
- Tatar: “Өмм-Каср”
- Turkish: “Um Kasr”
- Ukrainian: “Умм-Каср”
- Urdu: “ام قصر”
- Venetian: “Umm Qasr”
- Western Panjabi: “ام قصر”
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