Ormara
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ormara Tehsil
Ormara (Balochi and , ) is a town and tehsil in Gwadar District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is a port in the Makran coastal region. It is located west of Karachi and east of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea. This port is also mentioned in Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as Oraea.
Weather now
cached 1613h agoPlace details
- Locality
- اورماڑا
- Region
- بلوچستان
- Country
- پاکستان
- Population
- 13,026
- Timezone
- Asia/Karachi
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ormara
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Double crecent beach view.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A view of Ormara's "Double Crescents"
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Balochistan Pakistan#Pakistan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- top
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Pakistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Balochistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gwadar
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Tehsil
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Ormara
- Settlement.timezone1
- PST
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +5
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 91400
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Gwadar
- Elevation
- 7
- Image
- Ormara Bay.JPG
Show 1 more fact
- inception
- 1970-00-00
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Population
- Transport
- Education
- Military
- See also
- References
- External links
Ormara (Balochi and , ) is a town and tehsil in Gwadar District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is a port in the Makran coastal region. It is located west of Karachi and east of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea. This port is also mentioned in Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as Oraea.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ormara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations