Darkar
Darkar or Darkar Achem is one of the subdistricts of the Zakho District in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The town is 15 km northeast of Zakho. It has been the site of regular cross-border fighting with Turkey.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: Wikimedia list article
- Also known as: “Darkār”, “Darkār ‘Ajam”, and “Darkār, Darkar”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sharanish.
Sharanish
Village
Photo: Dilshad Beershad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sharanish is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located near the Iraq–Turkey border in the district of Zakho. The village has two Chaldean Catholic churches, Mart Shmune and Mar Kiriakos. Sharanish is situated 4½ km northeast of Darkar.
Darkar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Zakho, Dohuk Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.19865° or 37° 11′ 55″ northLongitude
42.82254° or 42° 49′ 21″ eastElevation
651 metres (2,136 feet)Open location code
8H945RXF+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2480157973OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Darkar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دركار عجم”
- Arabic: “دركار”
- Central Kurdish: “دەركار”
- Central Kurdish: “دەرکار عەجەم”
- French: “Darkar”
- German: “Darkar”
- German: “Derkar Adscham”
- German: “Derkar Ajam”
- Kurdish: “Derkar Ecem”
- Kurdish: “Derkar”
- Kurdish: “دەركار”
- Persian: “درکار (دهوک)”
- Persian: “درکار”
- Turkish: “Darkar”
- Uzbek: “Darkar”
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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 “Darkar”. Photo: Lamacchiacosta, CC BY-SA 4.0.