عماره

Also known as Al-Amarah

شهری در عراق

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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 عماره, and connects out to Maysan Governorate, Muqtada al-Sadr and Al-Kahla District.

It is catalogued under topics including 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

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PM2.5: 32.5 µg/m³
PM10: 87.3 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
Located in: Maysan Governorate
Population: 511500
Elevation: 12
Capital of: Maysan Governorate
Image: Breezes of Marshes.jpg

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topic's main category: Category:Amarah
Commons category: Amarah
inception: 1860-00-00
P8168: George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
different from: Amara, Nubia
P12749: Aloe cheranganiensis

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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)