Soran
Soran is a city in Erbil Governorate, and the administrative centre of Soran District in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Soran is one of the largest cities in Kurdistan Region with a population of about 64,177 people.Photo: Diyako kazm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 125,000 residents
- Description: District in Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
- Also known as: “Diana”, “Diyana”, “Diyānā”, “Qaryat Diyānā”, “Sawrān”, and “Soran, Iraq”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rawanduz.
Rawanduz
Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rawanduz or Rawandiz is a city in Northern Iraq. Rawanduz is multicultural hub of trade tucked away between tall mountains and deep river gorges.
Soran
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Soran District, Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.6555° or 36° 39′ 20″ northLongitude
44.5422° or 44° 32′ 32″ eastPopulation
125,000Elevation
741 metres (2,431 feet)Open location code
8H86MG4R+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1413814168OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
96961Wikidata ID
Q1529881
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Soran” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديانا”
- Arabic: “سوران”
- Arabic: “قرية ديانا”
- Catalan: “Soran (Iraq)”
- Catalan: “Soran”
- Central Kurdish: “دیانا”
- Central Kurdish: “دیانە”
- Central Kurdish: “سۆران”
- Central Kurdish: “شاری سۆران”
- Central Kurdish: “قەزای سۆران”
- Dutch: “Diana”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوران”
- French: “Soran”
- German: “Soran”
- Irish: “Soran”
- Italian: “Soran”
- Japanese: “ソラン”
- Japanese: “ディアナ (イラク)”
- Kurdish: “Diyana”
- Kurdish: “Diyane”
- Kurdish: “Soran, Hewlêr”
- Kurdish: “Soran”
- Kurdish: “ديانە”
- Kurdish: “سۆران”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soran”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Soran i Irak”
- Norwegian: “Soran”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܝܢܐ”
- Persian: “سوران”
- Polish: “Dijana”
- Portuguese: “Soran”
- Russian: “Дияна”
- Russian: “Соран”
- Russian: “Сорани”
- Spanish: “Soran”
- Swedish: “Soran”
- Turkish: “Diyana”
- Turkish: “Soran, Erbil”
- Turkish: “Soran”
- Urdu: “سوران، عراق”
- Urdu: “سوران”
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