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Al-'Amara

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Also known as Al-Amarah

città irachena

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The entry is geolocated on the map in city(420000)_region, across 6 mapped points.

Vinony's link graph records 429 inbound references to Al-'Amara, and connects out to Maysan Governorate, Muqtada al-Sadr and Al-Kahla District.

It sits within the topics 1860 establishments in the Ottoman Empire, Amarah and Cities in Iraq.

Vinony links it to 47 Wikipedia language editions.

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Place details

Locality
العمارة
Region
محافظة ميسان
Country
العراق
Population
323,302
Timezone
Asia/Baghdad

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Air quality

111US AQIUnhealthy (sensitive)
PM2.5
57.4 µg/m³
PM10
116.9 µg/m³
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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Amarah
Settlement.native_name
ٱلْعَمَارَة
Settlement.settlement_type
City
Settlement.image_caption
Photographs of Amarah, including views of the Tigris
Settlement.pushpin_map
Iraq
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
left
Settlement.pushpin_relief
yes
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location Iraq
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Maysan
Settlement.established_title
Founded
Settlement.established_date
1860
Settlement.area_total_km2
2962
Settlement.population_as_of
2018
Settlement.population_total
562187
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.population_metro
1,100,000

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
big city
Country
Iraq
Population
511500
Elevation
12
Image
Breezes of Marshes.jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Amarah
Commons category
Amarah
inception
1860-00-00
different from
Amara, Nubia
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Travel guide

Understand

A relatively recent city, Amarah was founded in 1860 as a military outpost by the Ottoman government in order to pacify the area, which until then had been considered quite lawless.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Article · Italiano

al-ʿAmāra (in arabo: العمارة‎, traslitterata anche Amāra o ʿAmārah) è una città dell'Iraq centro-orientale, sulle sponde del Tigri, con una popolazione stimata di 420.000 abitanti nel 2005. È il capoluogo del Governatorato di Maysan.

Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA

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