Raswajin
Raswajin is a village in Pshdar District, Sulemania Governorate. Raswajin is situated nearby to the village Dopan, as well as near Zanglan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Raniya and Sangasar.
Raniya
Photo: Shairania, Public domain.
Raniya is a town of 258,000 people in Sulemania Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan, surrounded by mountains, rivers, and Lake Dukan. It is known as the “Intifada Gate”, because Rania was the starting point for the Kurdish uprising in northern Iraq against the regime of Saddam Hussein on March 5, 1991.
Sangasar
Town
Sangasar is a small market town in Iraqi Kurdistan, around 110 km East of Erbil and 120 km North of Sulaymaniyah. in the late 1980s, Saddam Hussein forcibly displaced the inhabitants of the town as part of a plan to evict Kurdish people from the Eastern border with Iran. Sangasar is situated 9 km southeast of Raswajin.
Raswajin
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Pshdar District, Sulemania Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.29591° or 36° 17′ 45″ northLongitude
44.9301° or 44° 55′ 48″ eastOpen location code
8H867WWJ+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 7312861434OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
“Raswajin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رسواجین”
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