Iraqi Kurdistan
Sulemania Governorate
Pshdar District

Dūpān

Dūpān is an abandoned locality in , and has an elevation of 885 metres. Dūpān is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Raniya and Sangasar.

Photo: Shairania, Public domain.
is a town of 258,000 people in of , 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.

Town
is a small market town in , around 110 km East of and 120 km North of . in the late 1980s, Saddam Hussein forcibly displaced the inhabitants of the town as part of a plan to evict Kurdish people from the Eastern border with Iran. is situated 10 km southeast of Dūpān.

Dūpān

Latitude
36.30668° or 36° 18′ 24″ north
Longitude
44.92725° or 44° 55′ 38″ east
Elevation
885 metres (2,904 feet)
Open location code
8H868W4G+MW
Geo­Names ID
96935
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Kurdish—“Dūpān” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Dūpān”
  • Kurdish: “Dûpan”
  • Kurdish: “دووپان”

Localities in the Area

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