Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
Erbil Governorate

Erbil

Erbil is the capital and largest city in , and the fourth-largest city in . It is one of the oldest continually-inhabited sites of human civilization, and is also a rapidly-growing and urbanizing center for the oil industry and NGOs in the Middle East.
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  • Type: City with 1,710,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Kurdistan Region in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Arbeel”, “Arbela”, “Arbil”, “Hawler”, “Hawlēr”, “Hewler”, “Irbil”, “Irbīl”, and “埃爾比勒省”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Citadel of Erbil and Kurdish Textile Museum.

Castle
Photo: jan kurdistani, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , locally called Qellat, is a tell or occupied mound, and the historical city centre of Erbil in the of . The citadel was added to the World Heritage List on 21 June 2014.

Museum
Photo: Ara Qadir, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kurdish Textile and Cultural Museum is a devoted to textiles and other cultural works produced in , especially in Iraqi Kurdistan. It was established in 2004 and is located in a renovated mansion in the southeast quarter of the in .

Marketplace
A is a type of covered bazaar typical of and . Arbil contains an extensive Qaysari, just south of the citadel in the center of town that was first established in the early 13th century AD.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ankawa.

Town
is a suburb of Erbil in , Iraq. It is located 8 kilometres northwest of downtown Erbil. The suburb is predominantly populated by Christian Assyrians, most of whom adhere to the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Erbil

Latitude
36.1912° or 36° 11′ 28″ north
Longitude
44.0094° or 44° 0′ 34″ east
Population
1,710,000
Elevation
429 metres (1,407 feet)
IATA airport code
EBL
United Nations Location Codes
IQ ABL and IQ IRB
Open location code
8H8652R5+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 599019138
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
95446
Wiki­data ID
Q132754
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Erbil” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arbil”
  • Albanian: “Erbili”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἄρβηλα”
  • Arabic: “أربيل”
  • Arabic: “أربیل”
  • Arabic: “اربيل”
  • Arabic: “هولير”
  • Arabic: “ھةولیر”
  • Arabic: “ھەولیر”
  • Armenian: “Էրբիլ”
  • Asturian: “Erbil”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ərbil şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ərbil”
  • Basque: “Arbil”
  • Belarusian: “Арбіл”
  • Belarusian: “Эрбіль”
  • Bengali: “أربيل”
  • Bengali: “اربيل”
  • Bengali: “আর্বিল”
  • Bosnian: “Erbil”
  • Breton: “Hewlêr”
  • Bulgarian: “Арбил”
  • Bulgarian: “Ербил”
  • Bulgarian: “Ирбил”
  • Catalan: “Arbail”
  • Catalan: “Arbaira”
  • Catalan: “Arbairu”
  • Catalan: “Arbela”
  • Catalan: “Arbil”
  • Catalan: “Erbel”
  • Catalan: “Erbil”
  • Catalan: “Hawler”
  • Catalan: “Irbil”
  • Cebuano: “Arbil”
  • Cebuano: “Erbil (kapital sa lalawigan sa Iraq)”
  • Cebuano: “Erbil”
  • Central Bikol: “Erbil, Irak”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری قەڵا و منارە”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری ھەولێر”
  • Central Kurdish: “هەولێر”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەولێر”
  • Chechen: “Эрбиль”
  • Chinese: “埃尔比勒”
  • Chinese: “埃爾比勒”
  • Chinese: “艾比爾”
  • Chinese: “阿尔贝拉”
  • Chinese: “阿爾貝拉”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܐܪܒܝܠ”
  • Croatian: “Arbil”
  • Croatian: “Erbil”
  • Czech: “Arbela”
  • Czech: “Arbil”
  • Czech: “Arbíl”
  • Czech: “Erbil”
  • Czech: “Erbíl”
  • Czech: “Irbil”
  • Czech: “Irbíl”
  • Danish: “Arbil”
  • Danish: “Erbil”
  • Danish: “Hewler”
  • Danish: “Hewlêr”
  • Danish: “Irbil”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Erbil”
  • Dutch: “Arbil”
  • Dutch: “Erbil”
  • Dutch: “Hewler”
  • Dutch: “Hewlêr”
  • Dutch: “Irbil”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اربيل”
  • Esperanto: “Arbil”
  • Esperanto: “Hewler”
  • Estonian: “Arbil”
  • Estonian: “Arbīl”
  • Estonian: “Irbil”
  • Finnish: “Arbela”
  • Finnish: “Arbil”
  • Finnish: “Arbīl”
  • Finnish: “Hawler”
  • French: “Arbelès”
  • French: “Arbèles”
  • French: “Arbil”
  • French: “Erbil”
  • French: “Irbil”
  • Galician: “Arbil”
  • Georgian: “ერბილი”
  • German: “Arbil”
  • German: “Erbil”
  • German: “Erbîl”
  • German: “Irbil”
  • Greek: “Άρβηλα”
  • Greek: “Αρμπίλ”
  • Greek: “Ερμπίλ”
  • Greek: “Ιρμπίλ”
  • Gujarati: “એરબિલ”
  • Hebrew: “ארביל”
  • Hindi: “अरबिल”
  • Hindi: “अरबील”
  • Hindi: “इरबिल”
  • Hindi: “एरबिल”
  • Hindi: “हेबलर”
  • Hungarian: “Erbíl”
  • Icelandic: “Arbil”
  • Indonesian: “Arbil”
  • Indonesian: “Irbil”
  • Interlingua: “Erbil”
  • Interlingue: “Erbil”
  • Irish: “Hewlêr”
  • Italian: “Arbil”
  • Italian: “Erbil”
  • Italian: “Hewlêr”
  • Japanese: “アルビール”
  • Japanese: “アルビール県”
  • Japanese: “アルビル”
  • Japanese: “エルビル”
  • Javanese: “Erbil”
  • Kalaallisut: “Arbil”
  • Kannada: “ಎರ್ಬಿಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Érbïlʹ”
  • Kazakh: “Ербіл”
  • Kazakh: “Эрбиль”
  • Kazakh: “ەربىيل”
  • Korean: “아르빌”
  • Korean: “에르빌”
  • Korean: “이르빌”
  • Kurdish: “Arbil”
  • Kurdish: “Erbil”
  • Kurdish: “Erbîl”
  • Kurdish: “Hevlêr”
  • Kurdish: “Hewler”
  • Kurdish: “Hewlêr”
  • Kurdish: “ھەولێر”
  • Latin: “Arbela”
  • Latin: “Arbil”
  • Latvian: “Erbīla”
  • Lithuanian: “Arbilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Erbilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Irbilis”
  • Lombard: “Arbil”
  • Lombard: “Erbil”
  • Lombard: “Hewlêr”
  • Lombard: “Irbil”
  • Macedonian: “Ербил”
  • Malay: “Arbil”
  • Malayalam: “ഇർബിൽ”
  • Maori: “Āpiri”
  • Maori: “Arbil”
  • Marathi: “अर्बिल”
  • Mazanderani: “هولار”
  • Mingrelian: “ერბილი”
  • Nauru: “Arbil”
  • Nepali: “एर्बिल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arbela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arbil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Erbil”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arbil”
  • Norwegian: “Arbil”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܪܒܝܠ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܕܐܪܒܝܠ”
  • Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.): “𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎡𐎼𐎠𐏓”
  • Ossetian: “Эрбиль”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰਬੀਲ”
  • Persian: “آربل”
  • Persian: “آربلا”
  • Persian: “اربل”
  • Persian: “اربلا”
  • Persian: “اربیل”
  • Persian: “هولیر”
  • Piemontese: “Erbil”
  • Polish: “Arbela”
  • Polish: “Arbil”
  • Polish: “Irbil”
  • Portuguese: “Arbelas”
  • Portuguese: “Arbil”
  • Portuguese: “Irbil”
  • Pushto: “اربیل ولایت”
  • Romanian: “Arbil”
  • Russian: “Арбела”
  • Russian: “Ирбиль”
  • Russian: “Урбиллум”
  • Russian: “Эрбиль”
  • Scots: “Arbil”
  • Serbian: “Erbil”
  • Serbian: “Ербил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arbela”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arbil”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Erbil”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Irbil”
  • Silesian: “Irbil”
  • Sinhala: “එර්බිල්”
  • Slovak: “Arbíl”
  • Slovenian: “Arbil”
  • Slovenian: “Erbil”
  • Somali: “Erbil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اربیل”
  • Spanish: “Arbela”
  • Spanish: “Erbil”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵔⴱⵉⵍ”
  • Sumerian: “𒌨𒉈𒈝𒆠”
  • Swedish: “Arba-Ilu”
  • Swedish: “Arba-llu”
  • Swedish: “Arbela”
  • Swedish: “Arbil”
  • Swedish: “Arbīl”
  • Swedish: “Erbil”
  • Swedish: “Hawler”
  • Swedish: “Hewler”
  • Swedish: “Hewlêr”
  • Swedish: “Irbil”
  • Tajik: “Arbil”
  • Tajik: “Арбил”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Арбӣл”
  • Talysh: “Ərbil”
  • Tamil: “அர்பில்”
  • Tatar: “Әрбил”
  • Telugu: “ఎర్బిల్”
  • Thai: “อัรบีล”
  • Turkish: “Arbela”
  • Turkish: “Erbil”
  • Turkish: “Hawler”
  • Turkish: “Hewler”
  • Turkish: “Hewlêr”
  • Turkish: “İrbil”
  • Turkish: “Әрбил”
  • Uighur: “ئەربىل”
  • Ukrainian: “Арбіл”
  • Ukrainian: “Ербіль”
  • Urdu: “اربیل”
  • Uzbek: “Arbil”
  • Venetian: “Erbil”
  • Vietnamese: “Arbil”
  • Vietnamese: “Arbîl”
  • Vietnamese: “Erbil”
  • Vietnamese: “Irbil”
  • Vietnamese: “Irbîl”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arbil”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Erbil”
  • Western Panjabi: “اربیل”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃尔比勒”
  • Yue Chinese: “艾比爾”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Erbil”. Photo: Lamacchiacosta, CC BY-SA 4.0.