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.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: city in Mosul District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
  • Also known as: Al Kayyārah”, “Al Qaiyāra”, “Al Qayyarah”, “Al Qayyārah”, “Al-Qaiyara”, “Gayara”, “Kaiyara”, “Nāḩiyat al Qayyārah”, “Qaiyāra”, “Qayara”, “Qayyārah”, and “ناحية القيارة

Qayyarah

Latitude
35.79933° or 35° 47′ 58″ north
Longitude
43.29447° or 43° 17′ 40″ east
Elevation
183 metres (600 feet)
IATA airport code
RQW
United Nations Location Code
IQ AQY
Open location code
8H75Q7XV+PQ
Geo­Names ID
99003
Wiki­data ID
Q25302843
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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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