Halabja
Halabja is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan and the capital of Halabja Governorate. It is about 718 km northeast of Baghdad and 14 km from the Iranian border and it was established in 2014, splitting off from Sulaymaniyah Governorate and becoming the fourth governorate in Northern Iraq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: A Halabja, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: A Halabja, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 146,000 residents
- Description: city in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Also known as: “Alabja”, “Halabia”, “Ḩalabja”, “Halebdja”, “Halebja”, “Halebjeh”, “Helebce”, and “Helebje”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Halabji Governorate.
Halabji Governorate
Government office
Photo: A Halabja, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Halabja Governorate is a governorate in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The governorate was established in 2014, splitting off from Sulaymaniyah Governorate and becoming the fourth governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Halabja
- Category: locality
- Location: Qaḑā’ Ḩalabchah, Sulemania Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.1792° or 35° 10′ 45″ northLongitude
45.9874° or 45° 59′ 15″ eastPopulation
146,000Elevation
711 metres (2,333 feet)Open location code
8H775XHP+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 598253294OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
96205Wikidata ID
Q605544
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Halabja” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حلبجة”
- Arabic: “حلبچة”
- Arabic: “هلبجة”
- Armenian: “Հալաբջա”
- Asturian: “Halabja”
- Azerbaijani: “Hələbcə”
- Basque: “Halabja”
- Bengali: “হালাব্জা”
- Bulgarian: “Халабджа”
- Catalan: “Halabja”
- Cebuano: “Ḩalabjah”
- Central Kurdish: “هەڵەبجە”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەلەبجە”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەڵەبجە”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەڵەبجەی شەھید”
- 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”
- German: “Helepçe”
- 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: “ಹಲಾಬ್ಜಾ”
- Kazakh: “Кербела”
- Kazakh: “Халабджа”
- Korean: “할라브자”
- Kurdish: “Helebce”
- Kurdish: “Hellebce”
- 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”
- Sinhala: “හලබ්ජා”
- Slovak: “Halabdža”
- Spanish: “Halabja”
- Swedish: “Halabja”
- Tamil: “ஹலபிஜா”
- Telugu: “హలాబ్జా”
- Thai: “ฮานยา วัลด์”
- Turkish: “Halepçe”
- Ukrainian: “Халабджа”
- Urdu: “Halabja”
- Urdu: “حالابجا”
- Urdu: “حلبجہ”
- Vietnamese: “Halabja”
- Western Panjabi: “ہلابجا”
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