Xaghra

Xagħra is in . It's an attractive village of 4,900 people that houses the Ġgantija temples, and is a 5-minute drive or a 30-minute walk to Ramla i Hamra beach and to Rabat, so if you don't have too much time to explore the island, this is a good place to use as a base.
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  • Type: Village with 4,890 residents
  • Description: town on the island of Gozo in Malta
  • Also known as: “Casal Caccia”, “Ix-Xaghra”, “Kaċċa”, “Kacha”, “Shaghra”, “Xagħra”, and “الشَّعْرَاءُ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ġgantija and Ramla Bay.

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is a megalithic temple complex from the…

Beach
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is a bay with a beach of reddish-coloured sand in , in the Maltese Islands.

Church
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The of the Blessed Virgin…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Victoria and Għajnsielem.

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, also called Rabat is in .

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is a city on , .

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is a town on 's south coast.

Xaghra

Latitude
36.0503° or 36° 3′ 1″ north
Longitude
14.2648° or 14° 15′ 53″ east
Population
4,890
Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)
UN/LOCODE
MT XGA
Open location code
8F8P3727+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 131739777
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2562280
Wiki­data ID
Q605343
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Xaghra” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካግራ”
  • Arabic: “الشعراء”
  • Arabic: “خاغرا”
  • Armenian: “Շահրա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xaghra”
  • Basque: “Xagħra”
  • Belarusian: “Шаара”
  • Bengali: “খাঘ্রা”
  • Bengali: “জাঘ্রা”
  • Catalan: “Xagħra”
  • Cebuano: “Ix-Xagħra”
  • Chinese: “沙拉”
  • Danish: “Xagħra”
  • Dutch: “Xagħra”
  • Esperanto: “Xagħra”
  • Finnish: “Xagħra”
  • French: “Ix-Xagħra”
  • French: “Xaghra”
  • French: “Xagħra”
  • Galician: “Xagħra”
  • German: “Xaghra”
  • German: “Xagħra”
  • Greek: “Ξάγκχρα”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાઘ્રા”
  • Hausa: “Xaghra”
  • Hindi: “खाघ्रा”
  • Hindi: “शारा”
  • Hungarian: “Xagħra”
  • Indonesian: “Xaghra”
  • Indonesian: “Xagħra”
  • Italian: “Caccia”
  • Italian: “Xagħra”
  • Japanese: “カグラ”
  • Japanese: “シャーラ”
  • Javanese: “Xaghra”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಘ್ರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Кахра”
  • Kirghiz: “Кахра”
  • Korean: “샤라”
  • Latin: “Caccia”
  • Latvian: “Šagra”
  • Lithuanian: “Šagra”
  • Malay: “Xaghra”
  • Maltese: “Ix-Xagħra”
  • Maltese: “Xagħra”
  • Marathi: “क्साघार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xaghra”
  • Oromo: “Xaghra”
  • Panjabi: “ਖਾਘ਼ਰਾ”
  • Persian: “خاغرا”
  • Persian: “زاگرا”
  • Polish: “Xagħra”
  • Portuguese: “Xaghra”
  • Portuguese: “Xagħra”
  • Pushto: “خاغرا”
  • Russian: “Кахра”
  • Russian: “Шаара”
  • Sicilian: “Xagħra”
  • Sinhala: “එක්සග්‍රා”
  • Somali: “Xaghra”
  • Spanish: “Xaghra”
  • Spanish: “Xagħra”
  • Swahili: “Xaghra”
  • Swedish: “Ix-Xagħra”
  • Tajik: “Кахра”
  • Tamil: “சேக்ஹ்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Кахра”
  • Telugu: “జాగ్రా”
  • Thai: “ซาเกร็บ”
  • Turkish: “Xaghra”
  • Turkish: “Xagħra”
  • Ukrainian: “Шаара”
  • Ukrainian: “Шара”
  • Urdu: “خاغرا”
  • Urdu: “شارا”
  • Uzbek: “Xaghra”
  • Vietnamese: “Xaghra”

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