Tel Afar District
Tel Afar District is a district in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Its administrative center is the city of Tal Afar. Other towns include Rabia, Zummar, and al-Ayadia.
- Type: district of Iraq
- Description: district in Nineveh, Iraq
- Also known as: “Qaḑā’ Tal‘afar”, “Qaḑā’ Tall ‘Afar”, “Tala’afar”, “Tala‘far Qadhā’”, “Tall ‘Afar”, “Tall A‘far Qadhā’”, and “Tel Afar”
Tel Afar District
- Location: Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.5° or 36° 30′ north
Longitude
42.5° or 42° 30′ east
Elevation
382 metres (1,253 feet)
Open location code
8H84GG22+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Tel Afar District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قضاء تـلـعـفـر”
- Arabic: “قضاء تلعفر”
- Azerbaijani: “Təlafər qəzası”
- Cebuano: “Tel Afar District”
- Central Kurdish: “قەزای تەلەعفەر”
- Dutch: “Tel Afar district”
- Kurdish: “Tele‘fer”
- Kurdish: “Telefer (qeza)”
- Kurdish: “Telefer”
- Kurdish: “تەلەعفەر”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tel Afar-distriktet”
- Persian: “شهرستان تلعفر”
- Scots: “Tel Afar Destrict”
- Swedish: “Tal Afar”
- Turkish: “Telafer şehri”
- Turkish: “Telafer”
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