Afrin River
The Afrin River is a tributary of the Orontes River in Turkey and Syria. It rises in the Kartal Mountains in Gaziantep Province of Turkey, flows south through the city of Afrin in northwest Syria, then reenters Turkey.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: عمرو بن كلثوم, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Aafrine Sou”, “Afrin Suyu”, “Afrine Sou”, “Mélas”, “Nahr ‘Afrīn”, “Nahr Aafrîne”, “Nahr Afrine”, “Oinoparas”, and “Oya Afrin Irmaği”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kumlu and Hamam.
Kumlu
Town
Kumlu is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 193 km2, and its population is 13,333. It lies in the Amik Valley plain, on the road between Antakya and Reyhanlı.
Hamam
Village
Hamam is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Kumlu, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 272. Hamam is situated 10 km northeast of Afrin River.
Afrin River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Afrin River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Afrin River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر عفرين”
- Armenian: “Աֆրին”
- Asturian: “Ríu Afrin”
- Azerbaijani: “Afrin çayı”
- Belarusian: “Афрын”
- Catalan: “Riu Afrin”
- Cebuano: “Afrin Suyu”
- Dutch: “Afrin Suyu”
- Dutch: “Afrin”
- French: “Afrin”
- German: “Afrin”
- Hebrew: “נהר עפרין”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Afrin”
- Irish: “Abhainn Afrin”
- Italian: “Aafrîne”
- Italian: “Afrin”
- Japanese: “アフリーン川”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Efrînê”
- Macedonian: “Африн (река)”
- Macedonian: “Африн”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Afrin Çayı”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afrin Çayı”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afrin-elva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nahr ʻIfrīn”
- Norwegian: “Afrin Çayı”
- Polish: “Afrin”
- Romanian: “Râul Afrin”
- Russian: “Африн”
- Spanish: “Río Afrin”
- Spanish: “río Afrín”
- Swedish: “Afrin Suyu”
- Tamil: “ஆஃப்ரின் ஆறு”
- Tamil: “ஆஃப்ரின் சூயு”
- Turkish: “Afrin Çayı”
- Uzbek: “Afrin daryosi”
- Venetian: “Fiume Afrin”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Afrin”
- Welsh: “Afon Afrin”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Afrin River”. Photo: عمرو بن كلثوم, CC BY-SA 3.0.