Afrin River

The Afrin River is a tributary of the in and . It rises in the Kartal Mountains in of Turkey, flows south through the city of in northwest Syria, then reenters Turkey.
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  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 90 metres (295 feet)
  • Description: river
  • Also known as
    “Aafrine Sou”
    “Afrin Suyu”
    “Afrine Sou”
    “Mélas”
    “Nahr ‘Afrīn”
    “Nahr Aafrîne”
    “Nahr Afrine”
    “Oinoparas”
    “Oya Afrin Irmaği”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kumlu and Hamam.
is a municipality and district of , .
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . is situated 10 km northeast of Afrin River.

Afrin River

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Latitude
36.35437° or 36° 21′ 16″ north
Longitude
36.44833° or 36° 26′ 54″ east
Open location code
8G8R9C3X+P8
Geo­Names ID
174183
Wiki­data ID
Q387842

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Afrin River” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر عفرين”
  • Armenian: “Աֆրին”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Afrin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afrin çayı”
  • Basque: “Afrin ibaia”
  • 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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