Kalar
Kalar is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is the administrative center of the Garmian Region. It is located on the west bank of the Sirwan river in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, east of Kifri, and west of the towns of Qasri Shirin and Sarpol Zahab, located in Kermanshah.- Type: City with 250,000 residents
- Description: city in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Also known as: “Kalār”, “Kalar, Iraq”, “Kallār”, “Klar”, “كه لار”, and “که لار”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sherwana Castle.
Kalar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kalar District, Sulemania Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kalar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلار”
- Armenian: “Կալար”
- Bengali: “কালার”
- 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”
- Polish: “Kalar”
- Portuguese: “Kalar”
- Russian: “Келар”
- 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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: مزگەوتی عومەر بن خەتاب and Directorate of Culture and Art of Garmian.
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