Simele
Simele or Semel is a town located in the Dohuk province of Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The town is on the main road that connects the Kurdistan Region to its neighbor Turkey. It is 14 km west of Dohuk. The town had a population of 71,557 in July 2018.
- Town with 153,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 463 metres (1,519 feet)
- Description: town in Duhok, Iraq
- Also known as“Semeel”“Semel”“Sumel”“Summel”
Simele
- Category: locality
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Latitude
36.8569° or 36° 51′ 25″ north
Longitude
42.8473° or 42° 50′ 50″ east
Open location code
8H84VR4W+PW
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Simele” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Simele”
- Arabic: “سميل”
- Arabic: “سيميل”
- Central Kurdish: “سێمێل”
- Chinese: “西米勒”
- Dutch: “Semel”
- Dutch: “Simele”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سميل”
- French: “Semel”
- French: “Simelé”
- German: “Semel”
- German: “Sêmêl”
- German: “Sumayyil”
- Greek: “Σεμέλ”
- Greek: “Σιμέλε”
- Hebrew: “סימל”
- Kurdish: “Sêmêl”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Simele”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Semel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Simele”
- Norwegian: “Sumel”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܡܠܐ”
- Persian: “سیمل”
- Polish: “Sajmajl”
- Russian: “Simele”
- Russian: “Симеле”
- Russian: “Сумайиль”
- Spanish: “Sumail”
- Swedish: “Simele”
- Swedish: “Sumail”
- Turkish: “Semel”
- Turkish: “Simele”
- Uzbek: “Simele”
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