Qayyarah

Qayyarah or Qayara is an town located in southern on the west bank of the river, and about 60 km south of . It is located in the , and it is the seat of Qayyarah subdistrict.
  • Locality
  • …lies at an elevation of 183 metres (600 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code RQW
  • Description: city in Mosul District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
  • Also known as
    “Al Kayyārah”
    “Al Qaiyāra”
    “Al Qayyārah”
    “Gayara”
    “Kaiyara”
    “Nāḩiyat al Qayyārah”
    “Qaiyāra”
    “Qayara”
    “ناحية القيارة”

Qayyarah

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Latitude
35.79933° or 35° 47′ 58″ north
Longitude
43.29447° or 43° 17′ 40″ east
UN/LOCODE
IQ AQY
Open location code
8H75Q7XV+PQ
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Russian—“Qayyarah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القيارة”
  • Asturian: “Qayyarah”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەیارە”
  • Chinese: “蓋亞拉”
  • French: “Qayyarah”
  • German: “Al-Qayyara”
  • Japanese: “ケイヤラ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qayara”
  • Persian: “قیاره”
  • Russian: “Кайяра”

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