Iraqi Kurdistan
Sulemania Governorate
Kalar District

Kalar

Kalar is a city in the of and is the administrative center of the Garmian Region. It is located on the west bank of the in , east of , and west of the towns of Qasri Shirin and Sarpol Zahab, located in .
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  • Type: City with 250,000 residents
  • Description: City in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Also known as: “Kalār”, “Kalar, Iraq”, “Kallār”, and “Klar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sherwana Castle.

Castle
Photo: ئاسۆ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Shirwanah Castle, is a castle located in Kalar, , . is the ancestral home of the Jaff family.

Kalar

Latitude
34.6313° or 34° 37′ 53″ north
Longitude
45.3177° or 45° 19′ 4″ east
Population
250,000
Elevation
216 metres (709 feet)
Open location code
8H67J8J9+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 599486131
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
95005
Wiki­data ID
Q2625872
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kalar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كلار”
  • Armenian: “Կալար”
  • Bengali: “কালার”
  • Central Kurdish: “كه لار”
  • Central Kurdish: “كەلار”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەلار”
  • Chinese: “卡拉尔”
  • Chinese: “卡拉爾”
  • Danish: “Kalar”
  • Dutch: “Kalar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كلار”
  • Finnish: “Kalar”
  • French: “Kalar”
  • Georgian: “კალარი”
  • German: “Kalar”
  • Greek: “Καλάρ”
  • Gujarati: “કલાર”
  • Hindi: “कलार”
  • Indonesian: “Kalar”
  • Irish: “Kalar”
  • Italian: “Kalar”
  • Japanese: “カラー”
  • Japanese: “カラール”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಲಾರ್”
  • Korean: “칼라”
  • Korean: “칼라르”
  • Kurdish: “Kelar”
  • Kurdish: “كەلار”
  • Latvian: “Kalara”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalaras”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kalar”
  • Malay: “Kalar”
  • Marathi: “कलार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalar i Irak”
  • Norwegian: “Kalar”
  • Persian: “کلار”
  • Persian: “که لار”
  • Polish: “Kalar”
  • Portuguese: “Kalar”
  • Russian: “Келлар”
  • Sinhala: “කලර්”
  • Spanish: “Kalar”
  • Swedish: “Kalar”
  • Tamil: “கலர்”
  • Telugu: “కలర్”
  • Thai: “กา ล่า”
  • Turkish: “Kalar”
  • Ukrainian: “Келлар”
  • Urdu: “کالار”
  • Urdu: “کلار، عراق”
  • Vietnamese: “Kalar”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kalar”. Photo: ئاسۆ, CC BY-SA 3.0.