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Place details
- Locality
- أم قصر
- Region
- محافظة البصرة
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 107,620
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Iraq
- Governorate
- Basra
- District
- Al-Zubair District
- Elevation
- 9 m (30 ft)
- Total
- 107,620
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( GMT )
- Summer dst
- UTC+4
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
thumb|Cranes at Umm Qasr await cargo.
It stands on the canalised Khawr az-Zubayr, part of the Khawr Abd Allah estuary which leads to the Persian Gulf. It is separated from the border of Kuwait by a small inlet.
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Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Umm Qasr (Arabic: أم قصر, also transliterated as Um-qasir, Um-qasser, or Um 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. It is separated from the border of Kuwait by a small inlet. A bridge across the waterway linked the port with Kuwait prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umm Qasr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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