Sinjar District
The Sinjar District or the Shingal District is a district of the Nineveh Governorate. The district seat is the town of Sinjar. The district has two subdistricts, al-Shemal and al-Qayrawan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Iraq with 200,000 residents
- Description: district in Nineveh, Iraq
- Also known as: “Sinjar region”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sinjar.
Sinjar
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Shingal is a town in Iraq immediately south of Mount Sinjar. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023. The important Chermera temple is found on the highest peak of the Sinjar Mountains.
Sinjar District
- Location: Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sinjar District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قضاء سنجار”
- Azerbaijani: “Səncər qəzası”
- Belarusian: “Сінджар”
- Belarusian: “Сынджар”
- Catalan: “Sinjar”
- Cebuano: “Sinjar (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Sinjar”
- Central Kurdish: “شەنگال”
- Central Kurdish: “قەزای شنگال”
- Chinese: “辛賈爾縣”
- German: “Distrikt Sindschar”
- Japanese: “シンジャール郡”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinjar-distriktet”
- Persian: “شهرستان سنجار”
- Russian: “Синджар”
- Scots: “Sinjar Destrict”
- Swedish: “Sinjar (distrikt)”
- Swedish: “Sinjar”
- Turkish: “Sincar (ilçe)”
- Turkish: “Sincar”
- Ukrainian: “Округ Синджар”
- Urdu: “ضلع سنجار”
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