Halabja

Halabja is a city in and the capital of Halabja Governorate. It is about 718 km northeast of and 14 km from the border and it was established in 2014, splitting off from Sulaymaniyah Governorate and becoming the fourth governorate in Northern Iraq.
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  • Type: City with 146,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Also known as: “Helebje”, “حالابجا”, “هلبجة”, “هەڵەبجە”, “ھەلەبجە”, and “ھەڵەبجەی شەھید”

Halabja

Latitude
35.1792° or 35° 10′ 45″ north
Longitude
45.9874° or 45° 59′ 15″ east
Population
146,000
Elevation
711 metres (2,333 feet)
Open location code
8H775XHP+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 598253294
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
96205
Wiki­data ID
Q605544
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Halabja” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حلبجة”
  • Armenian: “Հալաբջա”
  • Asturian: “Halabja”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hələbcə”
  • Basque: “Halabja”
  • Bengali: “হালাব্জা”
  • Bulgarian: “Халабджа”
  • Catalan: “Halabja”
  • Cebuano: “Ḩalabjah”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەڵەبجە”
  • Chinese: “哈拉卜贾”
  • Chinese: “哈拉布賈”
  • Croatian: “Halabdža”
  • Croatian: “Halabja”
  • Czech: “Halabdža”
  • Danish: “Halabja”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Helebca”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Helebce”
  • Dutch: “Halabja”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حلبجه”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥalabĝo”
  • Estonian: “Ḩalabjah”
  • Finnish: “Halabdja”
  • French: “Halabja”
  • Georgian: “ჰალაბჯა”
  • German: “Halabdscha”
  • Greek: “Χαλάμπτζα”
  • Gujarati: “હલાબ્જા”
  • Hebrew: “חלבג’ה”
  • Hindi: “हलबजा”
  • Hindi: “हलाब्जा”
  • Hungarian: “Halabdzsa”
  • Indonesian: “Halabja”
  • Indonesian: “Halabjah”
  • Italian: “Halabja”
  • Italian: “Helebce”
  • Japanese: “ハラブジャ”
  • Javanese: “Halabja”
  • Kannada: “ಹಲಾಬ್ಜ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಲಾಬ್ಜಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Кербела”
  • Kazakh: “Халабджа”
  • Korean: “할라브자”
  • Kurdish: “Helebce”
  • Latvian: “Halabdža”
  • Lithuanian: “Halabja”
  • Malay: “Halabja”
  • Marathi: “हलाबजा”
  • Mazanderani: “حلبچه”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “حلبچة”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Halabja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halabja”
  • Norwegian: “Halabja”
  • Persian: “حلبچه”
  • Polish: “Halabdża”
  • Portuguese: “Halabja”
  • Romanian: “Halabja”
  • Russian: “Халабджа”
  • Serbian: “Халабџа”
  • Sinhala: “හලබ්ජා”
  • Slovak: “Halabdža”
  • Slovenian: “Halabdža”
  • Spanish: “Halabdscha”
  • Spanish: “Halabja”
  • Swedish: “Halabja”
  • Tamil: “ஹலபிஜா”
  • Telugu: “హలాబ్జా”
  • Thai: “ฮานยา วัลด์”
  • Turkish: “Halepçe”
  • Ukrainian: “Халабджа”
  • Urdu: “Halabja”
  • Urdu: “حلبجہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Halabja”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہلابجا”

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