Northern Umm Qasr Port
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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Industry
- Description: sea port in the Iraqi territorial sea south of Iraq
- Also known as: “Umm Qasr Port”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Umm Qasr.
Umm Qasr
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Northern Umm Qasr Port
- Category: port
- Location: Al-Zubair District, Basra Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.04921° or 30° 2′ 57″ northLongitude
47.93175° or 47° 55′ 54″ eastOpen location code
8H292WXJ+MPOpenStreetMap ID
way 546135279OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q7881645
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Northern Umm Qasr Port” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميناء أم قصر الشمالي”
- Arabic: “ميناء أم قصر”
- Arabic: “ميناء ام قصر”
- Central Kurdish: “بەندەری ئوم قەسر”
- Chinese: “乌姆卡斯尔港”
- Hebrew: “נמל אום קאסר”
- Hebrew: “נמל אום קסר”
- Urdu: “ام قصر بندرگاہ”
- Western Panjabi: “ام قصر بندرگاہ”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include منفذ ام قصر الاوسط and محطة قطار ام قصر.
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