Raniya
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Shairania, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 130,000 residents
- Description: town in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Also known as: “Rania”, “Rānia”, “Rāniyah”, “Rānīyah”, “Raniyeh”, “Ranya”, “Rānya”, and “Rānyah”
- Address: Ranya, as Sulaymaniya, Iraq, سلێمانی
Raniya
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Pshdar District, Sulemania Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.2565° or 36° 15′ 24″ northLongitude
44.8828° or 44° 52′ 58″ eastPopulation
130,000Elevation
574 metres (1,883 feet)Open location code
8H867V4M+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 598459803OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
92052Wikidata ID
Q1656131
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Raniya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رانية”
- Asturian: “Ranya”
- Catalan: “Rānīya”
- Catalan: “Ranya”
- Cebuano: “Ṟaniye”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕانیە”
- Chinese: “拉尼耶”
- Dutch: “Ranya”
- Esperanto: “Ranja”
- French: “Ranya”
- German: “Ranya”
- Greek: “Ράνιγια”
- Indonesian: “Raniya”
- Japanese: “ラーンヤ”
- Japanese: “ラニヤ”
- Japanese: “ランヤ”
- Kurdish: “Ṟaniye”
- Kurdish: “Ranya”
- Kurdish: “Ranye”
- Kurdish: “ڕانيە”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ranya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ranya”
- Norwegian: “Ranya”
- Persian: “رانیه”
- Polish: “Ranija”
- Russian: “Рания”
- Russian: “Ранья”
- Spanish: “Ranya”
- Swedish: “Ṟaniye”
- Turkish: “Raniye”
- Urdu: “رانیہ”
- Uzbek: “Ranya”
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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 “Raniya”. Photo: Shairania, Public domain.