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Place details
- Locality
- العمارة
- Region
- محافظة ميسان
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 323,302
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Air quality
119US AQIUnhealthy (sensitive)
- PM2.5
- 42.7 µg/m³
- PM10
- 114.8 µg/m³
As of 2026-10-12 04:00 · Open-Meteo
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- different from
- Amara, Nubia
- P12749
- Aloe cheranganiensis
via Wikidata · CC0
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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