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.
Shairania, Public domain.- Town with about 130,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 580 metres (1,890 feet)
- Description: town in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Address: Ranya, as Sulaymaniya, Iraq, ڕانیە, شارۆچکەی ڕانیە, پارێزگای سلێمانی, کوردستان
- Also known as“Rānia”“Rānīyah”“Raniyeh”“Rānya”“Rānyah”
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Latitude
36.2565° or 36° 15′ 24″ north
Longitude
44.8828° or 44° 52′ 58″ east
Open location code
8H867V4M+J4
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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”
- Hebrew: “ראניה”
- 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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