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Aleppo Governorate
Manbij District

Manbij

Manbij is a city in Afrin Canton. Manbij is an ancient city, but unfortunately almost all sights have been destroyed.
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  • Type: City with 99,500 residents
  • Description: city in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
  • Also known as: “Hierapolis”, “Hiérapolis Bambyce”, “Manbej”, “Manbi”, “Manbij City”, “Manbij, Aleppo”, “Manbij, Syria”, “Membidj”, “Membij”, “Memdidge”, “Mennbidj”, and “Minbej”

Manbij

Latitude
36.5269° or 36° 31′ 37″ north
Longitude
37.9559° or 37° 57′ 21″ east
Population
99,500
Elevation
468 metres (1,535 feet)
Open location code
8G8VGXG4+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248154948
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
167357
Wiki­data ID
Q1146939
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Manbij” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Manbij”
  • Albanian: “Menbixh”
  • Amharic: “ማንቢጅ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βαμβύκη”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἱεράπολις Βαμβύκη”
  • Arabic: “منبج”
  • Armenian: “Մանբիջ”
  • Asturian: “Manbij”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mənbic”
  • Basque: “Manbij”
  • Belarusian: “Манбідж”
  • Belarusian: “Мембідж”
  • Belarusian: “Мэмбідж”
  • Bengali: “মানবিজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Манбидж”
  • Catalan: “Bambice”
  • Catalan: “Lita Ashur”
  • Catalan: “Mabbog”
  • Catalan: “Mabog”
  • Catalan: “Manbidj”
  • Catalan: “Manbij”
  • Catalan: “Manbik”
  • Catalan: “Manbog”
  • Catalan: “Menbidj”
  • Catalan: “Nampigi”
  • Catalan: “Napiggi”
  • Catalan: “Nappigi”
  • Cebuano: “Manbij”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەنبج”
  • Chinese: “曼比傑”
  • Chinese: “曼比季”
  • Czech: “Manbidž”
  • Danish: “Manbij”
  • Dutch: “Manbij”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منبج”
  • Finnish: “Manbij”
  • Finnish: “Menbij”
  • French: “Manbij”
  • French: “Menbidj”
  • Georgian: “მემბიჯი”
  • German: “Manbidsch”
  • German: “Manbij”
  • Greek: “Μανμπίτζ”
  • Greek: “Μάνμπιτζ”
  • Greek: “Μεμβίτζ”
  • Gujarati: “માનબિજ”
  • Hebrew: “מנבג‘”
  • Hebrew: “מנבג’”
  • Hebrew: “מנביג‘”
  • Hindi: “मनबिज”
  • Indonesian: “Manbij”
  • Italian: “Manbij”
  • Japanese: “ヒエロポリス”
  • Japanese: “マンビジ”
  • Kannada: “ಮನ್ಬಿಜ್”
  • Korean: “만비즈”
  • Kurdish: “Mimbic”
  • Kurdish: “Minbic”
  • Latin: “Bambyce”
  • Latin: “Hierapolis”
  • Latvian: “Manbidža”
  • Lithuanian: “Manbidžas”
  • Malay: “Manbij”
  • Marathi: “मानबिझ”
  • Mazanderani: “منبج”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Manbij”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Manbij”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “‏ܡܒܘܓ‎”
  • Persian: “منبج”
  • Polish: “Manbidsch”
  • Polish: “Manbidż”
  • Portuguese: “Hierápolis Bambyce”
  • Portuguese: “Mambije”
  • Portuguese: “Manbij”
  • Romanian: “Manbij”
  • Russian: “Гиераполис сирийский”
  • Russian: “Манбидж”
  • Silesian: “Manbidż”
  • Sinhala: “මන්බිජ්”
  • Slovenian: “Manbidž”
  • South Azerbaijani: “منبیج”
  • Spanish: “Manbij”
  • Spanish: “Manbiy”
  • Spanish: “Manbiŷ”
  • Swedish: “Manbij”
  • Tamil: “மாண்பிஜ்”
  • Telugu: “మన్బిజ్”
  • Thai: “มันบิจ”
  • Turkish: “Menbic”
  • Turkish: “Münbiç”
  • Ukrainian: “Манбідж”
  • Urdu: “منبج”
  • Uzbek: “Giyerapol”
  • Vietnamese: “Manbij”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Manbij”
  • Western Armenian: “Մունպուճ”

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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 “Manbij”. Photo: Jacky Lee, CC BY 3.0.