Afak
Afak is a town in Al-Qadisiyah Governorate, Iraq. It is located 25 km northeast of Al Diwaniyah and 170 km south of Baghdad. As of 2026, the estimated population of the Afak district is 165,000 and Afak is estimated at 21,888.
- Type: Town with 35,500 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Afag”, “Afak, Afag, Afaq, Sok el Afej, عفك, Afak, Afag, Afaq, Sok el Afej, عفك”, “Afaq”, and “Sok el Afej”
Afak
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Afak District, Al-Qadisiyah Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.0643° or 32° 3′ 52″ north
Longitude
45.24743° or 45° 14′ 51″ east
Population
35,500
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Open location code
8H47367W+PX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Afak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عفك”
- Asturian: “Afak”
- Azerbaijani: “Afak”
- Azerbaijani: “Аfаk”
- Cebuano: “‘Afak (kapital sa distrito sa Iraq)”
- Cebuano: “‘Afak”
- Central Kurdish: “عەفەک”
- Chinese: “阿法克”
- Dutch: “Afak”
- French: “Afak”
- German: “Afak”
- Italian: “Afak”
- Kurdish: “Efek”
- Mazanderani: “عفک”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afak”
- Persian: “عفک”
- Polish: “Afak”
- Romanian: “Afak”
- Russian: “Афак”
- Swedish: “‘Afak”
- Swedish: “Afak, Irak”
- Uzbek: “Afak”
- Western Panjabi: “عفك”
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