Sheban

Sheban is a village in Ranya District, Sulemania Governorate and has an elevation of 807 metres. Sheban is situated nearby to the town Sarkapkan, as well as near the village Sharistayn.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Raniya and Hajiawa.

Raniya

Photo: Shairania, Public domain.

Raniya is a town of 258,000 people in Sulemania Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan, surrounded by mountains, rivers, and Lake Dukan. It is known as the “Intifada Gate”, because Rania was the starting point for the Kurdish uprising in northern Iraq against the regime of Saddam Hussein on March 5, 1991.

Hajiawa

Town

Photo: Hamagelarai, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hajiawa is a town, which is situated 7 km southwest of Sheban.

Sheban

Type: Village
Also known as: “Shaybān” and “Shēbān”
Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Ranya District, Sulemania Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

36.28864° or 36° 17′ 19″ north

Longitude

44.83309° or 44° 49′ 59″ east

Elevation

807 metres (2,648 feet)

Open location code

8H867RQM+F6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2488273505

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

Wikidata ID

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Kurdish—“Sheban” goes by many names.

Arabic: “شيبان”
Central Kurdish: “شێبان”
French: “Sheban”
German: “Sheban”
Kurdish: “Shaban”
Kurdish: “Shêban”
Kurdish: “شێبان”

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