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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  • City with about 846,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 390 metres (1,280 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code EBL
  • Description: capital of Kurdistan Region in Iraq
  • Also known as
    “Arbeel”
    “Arbēla”
    “Arbil”
    “Hawlēr”
    “Hewler”
    “Irbīl”
    “埃爾比勒省”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Citadel of Erbil and Kurdish Textile Museum.
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Castle
The , locally called Qellat, is a tell…
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Museum
The Kurdish Textile and Cultural Museum is a …
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Mosque
The is a Sunni in Erbil, in the of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ankawa.
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Town
is a suburb and neighborhood of Erbil in , Iraq.

Erbil

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Latitude
36.1912° or 36° 11′ 28″ north
Longitude
44.0094° or 44° 0′ 34″ east
UN/LOCODE
IQ IRB and IQ ABL
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: “أربیل”
  • Arabic: “إربيل”
  • Arabic: “هولير”
  • Arabic: “ھةولیر”
  • Arabic: “ھەولیر”
  • Armenian: “Էրբիլ”
  • Asturian: “Erbil”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ərbil şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ərbil”
  • Basque: “Arbil”
  • Belarusian: “Арбіл”
  • Belarusian: “Эрбіль”
  • Bengali: “أربيل”
  • 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: “Arbíl”
  • Czech: “Erbíl”
  • Czech: “Irbíl”
  • Danish: “Arbil”
  • Danish: “Erbil”
  • Danish: “Hewlêr”
  • Danish: “Irbil”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Erbil”
  • Dutch: “Arbil”
  • Dutch: “Erbil”
  • Dutch: “Hewlêr”
  • Dutch: “Irbil”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اربيل”
  • Esperanto: “Arbil”
  • Esperanto: “Hewler”
  • Estonian: “Arbīl”
  • Estonian: “Irbil”
  • Finnish: “Arbela”
  • Finnish: “Arbīl”
  • Finnish: “Hawler”
  • French: “Arbelès”
  • French: “Arbil”
  • French: “Erbil”
  • French: “Irbil”
  • Galician: “Arbil”
  • Georgian: “ერბილი”
  • German: “Arbil”
  • German: “Erbîl”
  • German: “Irbil”
  • Greek: “Άρβηλα”
  • Greek: “Αρμπίλ”
  • Greek: “Ερμπίλ”
  • Greek: “Ιρμπίλ”
  • Gujarati: “એરબિલ”
  • Hebrew: “ארביל”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಏರ್ಬೀಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Érbïlʹ”
  • Kazakh: “Ербіл”
  • Kazakh: “Эрбиль”
  • Kazakh: “ەربىيل”
  • Korean: “아르빌”
  • Korean: “에르빌”
  • Korean: “이르빌”
  • Kurdish: “Arbil”
  • Kurdish: “Erbîl”
  • Kurdish: “Hevlêr”
  • Kurdish: “Hewlêr”
  • Kurdish: “هەولێر”
  • 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: “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: “Arbīl”
  • Swedish: “Erbil”
  • Swedish: “Hawler”
  • Swedish: “Hewlêr”
  • Swedish: “Irbil”
  • Tajik: “Arbil”
  • Tajik: “Арбил”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Арбӣл”
  • Tajik: “Эрбил”
  • Talysh: “Ərbil”
  • Tamil: “அர்பில்”
  • Tatar: “Әрбил”
  • Telugu: “ఎర్బిల్”
  • Thai: “อัรบีล”
  • Turkish: “Arbela”
  • Turkish: “Erbil”
  • Turkish: “Hawler”
  • Turkish: “Hewlêr”
  • Turkish: “İrbil”
  • Turkish: “Әрбил”
  • Uighur: “ئەربىل”
  • Ukrainian: “Арбіл”
  • Ukrainian: “Ербіль”
  • Urdu: “اربیل”
  • Uzbek: “Arbil”
  • Venetian: “Erbil”
  • Vietnamese: “A Bỉ Nhĩ”
  • Vietnamese: “Arbîl”
  • Vietnamese: “Erbil”
  • 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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