Qandil Mountains
The Qandil Mountains, are a mountainous area of Iraqi Kurdistan near the Iranian and Turkish borders. The region belongs to the Zagros mountain range and is difficult to access, with extremely rugged terrain.- Mountain rising to 3,253 metres (10,673 feet)
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as“Jabal Qandīl”“Silsilat Jibāl Qandīl”
Qandil Mountains
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Latitude
36.51709° or 36° 31′ 2″ north
Longitude
45.01986° or 45° 1′ 12″ east
Open location code
8H87G289+RW
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Qandil Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل قنديل”
- Arabic: “سلسلة جبال قنديل”
- Armenian: “Զարասպ (լեռ)”
- Armenian: “Զարասպ”
- Basque: “Kandil mendiak”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Kandil”
- Cebuano: “Silsilat Jibāl Qandīl”
- Central Kurdish: “قەندیل”
- Chinese: “坎迪尔山脉”
- Dutch: “Silsilat Jibāl Qandīl”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل قنديل”
- French: “Monts Qandil”
- German: “Kandil-Berge”
- Greek: “Όρη Καντίλ”
- Kurdish: “Çiyayên Qendîlê”
- Kurdish: “Shaxî Qendîl”
- Kurdish: “Zincîre Chîay Qendîl”
- Kurdish: “زنجيرە چياى قەنديل”
- Kurdish: “شاخى قەنديل”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qandilfjellene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qandilfjella”
- Persian: “کوه قندیل”
- Persian: “کوهستان قندیل”
- Russian: “Кандиль”
- Slovenian: “Silsilat Džibal Kandil”
- Spanish: “Montes Qandil”
- Swedish: “Qandilbergen”
- Turkish: “Kandil Dağları”
- Uzbek: “Qandil tog’lari”
- Uzbek: “Qandil togʻlari”
- Venetian: “Monti Qandil”
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