Dujail
Dujail is a town in Saladin Governorate, Iraq. It is about 65 kilometers north of Baghdad. It was the site of the 1982 Dujail Massacre, in which between 142 and 148 people, including children, died.- Type: Town with 26,400 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Ad Dujayl”, “Al Ibrāhīmīyah”, “Nahiya Sumaīka”, “Nāḩiyat ad Dujayl”, “Sumaicha”, “Sumaichah”, “Sumaīka”, “Sumaikcheh”, “Sumaykah”, “Sumeicha”, “Sumeikeh”, “Sumekche”, “Summeicha”, and “Suneiki”
Dujail
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Al Faris, Salah ad Din Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.83707° or 33° 50′ 13″ north
Longitude
44.24746° or 44° 14′ 51″ east
Population
26,400
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
Open location code
8H56R6PW+RX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Dujail” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الدجيل”
- Arabic: “دجيل”
- Asturian: “Dujail”
- Azerbaijani: “Düceyl”
- Cebuano: “Ad Dujayl”
- Central Kurdish: “دوجەیل”
- Chinese: “杜杰勒镇”
- Chinese: “杜賈爾村”
- Chinese: “杜贾尔”
- Chinese: “杜贾尔村”
- Dutch: “Dujail”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الدجيل”
- Esperanto: “Dujail”
- French: “Doujail”
- French: “Doujaïl”
- French: “Massacre de Doujaïl”
- German: “Dudschail”
- German: “Dujail”
- Hindi: “दुजेल”
- Indonesian: “Dujail”
- Irish: “Dujail”
- Italian: “Ad Dujayl”
- Italian: “Dujail”
- Italian: “Dujayl”
- Japanese: “アッ・ドゥジャイル”
- Japanese: “ドゥジャイル”
- Japanese: “ドジャイル”
- Korean: “두자일”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dujail”
- Persian: “دجيل”
- Persian: “دجیل”
- Polish: “Ad-Dudżajl”
- Polish: “Dudżail”
- Polish: “Dujail”
- Portuguese: “Dujail”
- Russian: “Эд-Дуджайль”
- Russian: “Эд-Дуджейль”
- Scots: “Dujail”
- Scots: “الدجيل”
- Slovenian: “Dudžail”
- Swedish: “Dujail”
- Thai: “อัดดุญัยล์”
- Turkish: “Dücail”
- Turkish: “Ducayil”
- Turkish: “Dücayil”
- Turkish: “Düceil”
- Turkish: “Duceyil”
- Turkish: “Düceyil”
- Urdu: “دجیل”
- Uzbek: “Dujayl”
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