Iraqi Kurdistan
Dohuk Governorate
Simele District

Simele

Simele or Semel is a town located in the Dohuk province of in . The town is on the main road that connects the to its neighbor . It is 14 km west of Dohuk. The town had a population of 71,557 in July 2018.
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  • Type: Town with 71,600 residents
  • Description: town in Duhok, Iraq
  • Also known as: “Semeel”, “Semel”, “Sumel”, and “Summel”

Simele

Latitude
36.8569° or 36° 51′ 25″ north
Longitude
42.8473° or 42° 50′ 50″ east
Population
71,600
Elevation
463 metres (1,519 feet)
Open location code
8H84VR4W+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1438279862
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
10303650
Wiki­data ID
Q1724848
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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: “Сумайиль”
  • Spanish: “Sumail”
  • Swedish: “Simele”
  • Swedish: “Sumail”
  • Turkish: “Semel”
  • Turkish: “Simele”
  • Uzbek: “Simele”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Simele”. Photo: MikaelF, CC BY-SA 3.0.