Iraq
Al-Qadisiyah Governorate
Afak District

Afak

Afak is a town in , . It is located 25 km northeast of and 170 km south of . As of 2026, the estimated population of the Afak district is 165,000 and Afak is estimated at 21,888.
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  • Type: Town with 21,900 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

Latitude
32.0643° or 32° 3′ 52″ north
Longitude
45.24743° or 45° 14′ 51″ east
Population
21,900
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Open location code
8H47367W+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2482339420
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
99738
Wiki­data ID
Q1029650
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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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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 “Afak”. Photo: Re1mod, CC BY-SA 4.0.