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Camp Marmal

Camp Marmal was an installation of the Afghan Armed Forces. It was adjacent to Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi International Airport in , , at the foot of the mountains.
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  • Type: Military installation
  • Description: largest base of the Bundeswehr outside of Germany, in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Camp Alexander” and “Maīdān-e Hawā’ī”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi International Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mazar-e-Sharif International Airport, officially called , is located about 9 km east of in northern , which is around 15 minutes of driving distance from the center of the city.

Camp Marmal

Latitude
36.70125° or 36° 42′ 5″ north
Longitude
67.22783° or 67° 13′ 40″ east
Open location code
8J89P62H+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 124348907
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Wiki­data ID
Q470684
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Camp Marmal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “معسكر مارمل”
  • Cebuano: “Maīdān-e Hawā’ī”
  • Chinese: “馬爾馬勒營”
  • Chinese: “馬爾馬軍營”
  • Croatian: “Kamp Marmal”
  • Dutch: “Camp Marmal”
  • German: “Camp Marmal”
  • German: “CM”
  • German: “Kamp Marmal”
  • Japanese: “キャンプ･マーマル”
  • Japanese: “マーマル駐屯地”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Camp Marmal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Camp Nidaros”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marmal-leiren”
  • Norwegian: “Marmal-leiren”
  • Persian: “کمپ مارمال”
  • Spanish: “Camp Marmal”
  • Swedish: “Camp Birka”
  • Swedish: “Camp Marmal”
  • Swedish: “Maīdān-e Hawā’ī”
  • Uzbek: “Marmal Oromgohi”

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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 Wikipedia page “Camp Marmal”. Photo: Julian-G. Albert, CC BY 2.0.