Kānī Kawtir

Kānī Kawtir is a locality in , . Kānī Kawtir is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sangasar and Raniya.

Town
is a small market town in , around 110 km East of and 120 km North of . in the late 1980s, Saddam Hussein forcibly displaced the inhabitants of the town as part of a plan to evict Kurdish people from the Eastern border with Iran.

Photo: Shairania, Public domain.
is a town of 258,000 people in of , surrounded by mountains, rivers, and Lake Dukan. It is known as the “Intifada Gate”, because Rania was the starting point for the Kurdish uprising in northern Iraq against the regime of Saddam Hussein on March 5, 1991.

Kānī Kawtir

Latitude
36.23306° or 36° 13′ 59″ north
Longitude
44.98197° or 44° 58′ 55″ east
Elevation
516 metres (1,693 feet)
Open location code
8H866XMJ+6Q
Geo­Names ID
7542628
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Kurdish—“Kānī Kawtir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كاني كوتر
  • Kurdish: Kanî Kotir
  • Kurdish: كانى كۆتر

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