Nippur

Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind", ruler of the cosmos, subject to An alone.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient city in modern day Iraq
  • Also known as: “Atlal Nafar”, “Atlāl Nufar”, and “Niffar”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Afak.

Town
Photo: Re1mod, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in , . It is located 25 km northeast of and 170 km south of . As of 2026, the estimated population of the district is 165,000 and is estimated at 21,888. is situated 7 km south of Nippur.

Nippur

Latitude
32.12614° or 32° 7′ 34″ north
Longitude
45.23086° or 45° 13′ 51″ east
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
8H4746GJ+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7316513646
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
92882
Wiki­data ID
Q188395
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Nippur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nippur”
  • Akkadian: “Nibbur”
  • Amharic: “ኒፑር”
  • Arabic: “اطلال نفر”
  • Arabic: “نفر”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nippur”
  • Bashkir: “Нибру”
  • Bashkir: “Ниппур”
  • Bashkir: “Нуффар”
  • Basque: “Nippur”
  • Belarusian: “Ніпур”
  • Bengali: “নিপপুর”
  • Bulgarian: “Нипур”
  • Catalan: “Nippur”
  • Cebuano: “Aţlāl Nafar”
  • Chinese: “尼帕”
  • Chinese: “尼普尔”
  • Chinese: “尼普爾”
  • Chuvash: “Ниппур”
  • Croatian: “Nippur”
  • Croatian: “Nipur”
  • Czech: “Nibbur”
  • Czech: “Nibru”
  • Czech: “Nippur”
  • Danish: “Nippur”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nippur”
  • Dutch: “Nippoer”
  • Dutch: “Nippur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نفر”
  • Esperanto: “Nippur”
  • Finnish: “Nippur”
  • French: “Nippour”
  • French: “Nippur”
  • Galician: “Nippur”
  • Georgian: “ნიპური”
  • Georgian: “ნიფური”
  • German: “Nibbur”
  • German: “Nibru”
  • German: “Nippur”
  • Greek: “Νιπούρ”
  • Greek: “Νίπουρ”
  • Hebrew: “ניפור”
  • Hungarian: “Nippur”
  • Icelandic: “Nippur”
  • Indonesian: “Nibru”
  • Italian: “Nippur”
  • Japanese: “ニップール”
  • Japanese: “ニップル”
  • Kazakh: “Nïppwr”
  • Kazakh: “Ниппур”
  • Kazakh: “نىيپپۋر”
  • Korean: “니푸르”
  • Kurdish: “Nîppûr”
  • Latvian: “Nipūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Nipūras”
  • Macedonian: “Нипур”
  • Malayalam: “നിപൂർ”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიფური”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nippur”
  • Norwegian: “Nippur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nippur”
  • Persian: “نیپ‌پور”
  • Persian: “نیپور”
  • Polish: “Nibru”
  • Polish: “Nippur”
  • Portuguese: “Nippur”
  • Portuguese: “Nipur”
  • Romanian: “Nippur”
  • Russian: “Ниппур”
  • Scots: “Nippur”
  • Serbian: “Нипур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nippur”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nipur”
  • Sinhala: “නිප්පූර්”
  • Slovak: “Nippur”
  • Slovenian: “Nipur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیپور”
  • Spanish: “Nippur”
  • Spanish: “Nipur”
  • Sumerian: “Nibru”
  • Swedish: “Nippur”
  • Tagalog: “Nippur”
  • Tamil: “நிப்பூர்”
  • Thai: “นิปปูร์”
  • Turkish: “Nippur”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніппур”
  • Uzbek: “Nippur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nippur”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼普尔”
  • “𒂗𒇸”

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