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Misratah
City in Tripolitania, Libya

Misratah

Misrata ( miss-RAH-tə; Arabic: مصراتة, romanized: Miṣrāta, Libyan Arabic: Məṣrāta; also spelled Misratah and known by the Italian spelling Misurata, is a city in northwestern Libya located in the Misrata District, situated 187 km to the east of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast near Cape Misrata.

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With a population of about 881,000, it is the third-largest city in Libya, after Tripoli and Benghazi. It is the capital city of the Misrata District and has been called the economic and trade capital of Libya. Its harbor is at Qasr Ahmad.

Get in

Getting to Misratah

You need a visa (if you're required to get one, that is) and a valid passport to travel to Libya. More information on entering the country and Libyan immigration formalities can be found in the Libya article. Misrata is served by Afriqiyah Airways from Istanbul, Jeddah, Sfax and Tunis and Libyan Airlines from Tunis.

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    Misrata Airport

    As of 2024 a ferry, the Kevalay Queen, operates between Misrata and Istanbul, in Turkey.

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    Port of Misrata
See

Worth seeing

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    Raidat Mosque
Do

Things to do

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    Misrata National Theater
How locals move

Getting around Misratah the local way

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Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: joepyrek from Richmond, Va, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0), Wikimedia Commons.