Kobani

Kobanî, also known as Kobane or Ayn al-Arab, is a Kurdish-majority city in the in northern , lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border.
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  • Town with 44,800 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 514 metres (1,686 feet)
  • Description: town in Syria
  • Also known as
    “‘Arab Bīnār”
    “‘Arab Būnār”
    “Aarab Peunâr”
    “Aïn al-Arab”
    “Aïn el Aarab”
    “Arab Peunar”
    “Ayn al-Arab”
    “Ein-al-Arab”
    “Kobane”
    “عين العرب”
    “عين العرب (كوباني)‎”
    “كوباني‎”
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mürşitpınar.
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and…

Kobani

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Latitude
36.89° or 36° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude
38.3542° or 38° 21′ 15″ east
Open location code
8G8WV9Q3+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3586518721
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
172256
Wiki­data ID
Q126415

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kobani” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “عرب بينار”
  • Arabic: “عين العرب”
  • Arabic: “كوباني”
  • Armenian: “Այն ալ-Արաբ”
  • Armenian: “Քոբանի”
  • Asturian: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Asturian: “Kobane”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əyn əl-Ərəb”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kobani”
  • Bashkir: “Айн-эль-Араб”
  • Basque: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Basque: “Kobane”
  • Basque: “Kobani”
  • Belarusian: “Айн эль-Араб”
  • Bulgarian: “Айн ал-Араб”
  • Bulgarian: “Айн эль-Араб”
  • Bulgarian: “Кобани”
  • Catalan: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Catalan: “Kobanê”
  • Catalan: “Kobani”
  • Cebuano: “‘Ayn al ‘Arab”
  • Cebuano: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆبانی”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆبانێ”
  • Chinese: “艾因阿拉伯/科巴尼”
  • Chinese: “艾因阿拉伯”
  • Czech: “Ajn al-Arab”
  • Czech: “Kobane”
  • Czech: “Kobanê”
  • Czech: “Kobani”
  • Czech: “Kobanî”
  • Danish: “Ain al-Arab”
  • Danish: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Danish: “Kobane”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Eyn el-Ereb”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kobani”
  • Dutch: “‘Ayn al-’Arab”
  • Dutch: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Dutch: “Kobanê”
  • Dutch: “Kobani”
  • Dutch: “Kobanî”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عين العرب”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوباني هو الاسم بالكوردية”
  • Estonian: “Kobanî”
  • Estonian: “ʿAyn al-ʿArab”
  • Finnish: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Finnish: “Kobanê”
  • French: “Aïn al-Arab”
  • French: “Kobané”
  • French: “Kobanê”
  • French: “Kobani”
  • French: “Kobanî”
  • Galician: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Galician: “Kobanî”
  • Georgian: “აინ-ელ-არაბი”
  • Georgian: “კობანი”
  • German: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • German: “Kobane”
  • German: “Kobanê”
  • German: “Kobani”
  • German: “Kobanî”
  • Gilaki: “عين العرب”
  • Gilaki: “کؤباني”
  • Greek: “Αΐν αλ-Αράμπ”
  • Greek: “Κομπάνε”
  • Hebrew: “כובאני”
  • Hebrew: “כּוֹבּאני”
  • Hebrew: “עין אל-ערב”
  • Hebrew: “קובאני”
  • Indonesian: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Indonesian: “Kobanê”
  • Interlingue: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Interlingue: “Kobanê”
  • Irish: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Italian: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Italian: “Kobane”
  • Italian: “Kobanê”
  • Italian: “Kobani”
  • Italian: “Kobânî”
  • Italian: “ʿAyn al-ʿArab”
  • Japanese: “アイン・アル゠アラブ”
  • Japanese: “アイン・アル＝アラブ”
  • Japanese: “コバニ”
  • Korean: “아인알아라브”
  • Korean: “코바니”
  • Kurdish: “Kobanî”
  • Latin: “Cobane”
  • Latin: “Kobane”
  • Latvian: “Ainelaraba”
  • Lombard: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Lombard: “Kobane”
  • Mazanderani: “عين العرب”
  • Mazanderani: “عین العرب”
  • Mazanderani: “کوبانی”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ainelaraba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kobane”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kobanî”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Norwegian: “Kobanî”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kobani”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਬਾਨੀ”
  • Persian: “عين العرب”
  • Persian: “عین‌ العرب”
  • Persian: “کوبانی”
  • Polish: “Ajn al-Arab”
  • Polish: “Kobanê”
  • Polish: “Kobanî”
  • Portuguese: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Portuguese: “Kobanê”
  • Portuguese: “Kobanî”
  • Pushto: “عين العرب”
  • Pushto: “کوباني”
  • Romanian: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Romanian: “Kobani”
  • Russian: “Айн-эль-Араб”
  • Russian: “Кобани”
  • Scots: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Serbian: “Айн-эль-Араб”
  • Serbian: “Кобани”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ajn al-Arab”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Sicilian: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Sicilian: “Kobanî”
  • Silesian: “Kobanê”
  • Sindhi: “عين العرب”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوباني”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عين العرب”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عین‌ العرب”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عین‌العرب”
  • Spanish: “Ain al-Arab”
  • Spanish: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Spanish: “Kobane”
  • Spanish: “Kobani”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵓⴱⴰⵏⵉ”
  • Swedish: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Swedish: “Kobane”
  • Thai: “โคบานี”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “عين العرب”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “كوباني”
  • Turkish: “Arap Pınarı”
  • Turkish: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Turkish: “Ayn el-Arab”
  • Turkish: “Kobani”
  • Ukrainian: “Кобане”
  • Ukrainian: “Кобани”
  • Urdu: “عین العرب”
  • Urdu: “کوبانی”
  • Vietnamese: “Ayn al-Arab”
  • Vietnamese: “Kobanî”
  • Western Panjabi: “عين العرب”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوبانی”

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