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Rojava is a semi-autonomous region of , inhabited mostly by Kurds, and also known as Syrian Kurdistan, and officially since Sep 2018, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
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, officially known as Ayn al-Arab, is a city in northern Syria. Since 2014 it has been the capital of the self-declared Euphrates Canton.

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is the capital of the Province in the of Rojava in . It is the second largest city of Rojava with a population of 180.000 inhabitants.

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is a province of Rojava, the Kurdish region of . It is also home to the capital, .

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is a city in Afrin Canton. is an ancient city, but unfortunately almost all sights have been destroyed.

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Rojava

  • Type: de facto regime with 2,000,000 residents
  • Description: de facto autonomous region in Syria
  • Also known as: “AANES”, “Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria”, “DAANES”, “Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria”, “democratic confederalist autonomous areas of northern Syria”, “Democratic Federation of Northern Syria”, “Democratisch Zelfbestuur Rojava”, “DFNS”, “East of Euphrates region”, “Federal Northern Syria”, “Gozarto”, and “NES”
  • Categories: administrative territorial entity and autonomous region
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
36.6148° or 36° 36′ 53″ north
Longitude of center
39.1359° or 39° 8′ 9″ east
Population
2,000,000
Wiki­data ID
Q619829
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Rojava” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Administrata Autonome e Sirisë Veriore dhe Lindore”
  • Arabic: “الإدارة الذاتية لشمال وشرق سوريا”
  • Armenian: “Սիրիական Քուրդիստան”
  • Azerbaijani: “AANES”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rojava”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali və Şərqi Suriya Muxtar İdarəsi”
  • Basque: “Rojava”
  • Belarusian: “Ражава”
  • Belarusian: “Сірыйскі Курдыстан”
  • Belarusian: “Сырыйскі Курдыстан”
  • Bengali: “রোজাভা”
  • Bosnian: “Rožava”
  • Breton: “Kurdistan Siria”
  • Bulgarian: “Демократична федерация на Северна Сирия”
  • Catalan: “Administració Autònoma del Nord i Est de Síria”
  • Catalan: “DFNS”
  • Catalan: “Rojava”
  • Cebuano: “Rojava”
  • Central Kurdish: “خۆبەڕێوەبەریی باکوور و ڕۆژھەڵاتی سووریا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆژئاوای کوردستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆژاوا”
  • Chinese: “Rojava”
  • Chinese: “敘利亞庫德斯坦”
  • Chinese: “羅賈瓦”
  • Chinese: “西庫爾德斯坦”
  • Croatian: “Sirijski Kurdistan”
  • Czech: “Rojava”
  • Czech: “Rožava”
  • Danish: “Rojava”
  • Danish: “Syrisk Kurdistan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kurdıstanê Suriya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Rojawanê Kurdistan”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Regio in Noord Syrië”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Regio Noord Syrië”
  • Dutch: “Autonome Regio Noord- en Oost-Syrië”
  • Dutch: “Democratisch Zelfbestuur Rojava”
  • Dutch: “Ro­ja­va”
  • Dutch: “Rojavi”
  • Dutch: “Syrische Koerden”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Administro de Norda kaj Orienta Sirio”
  • Esperanto: “Memstara Administracio de Norda kaj Orienta Sirio”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Kurdio”
  • Esperanto: “Roĵavo”
  • Esperanto: “Siria Kurdio”
  • Esperanto: “Siria Kurdujo”
  • Finnish: “Syyrian Kurdistan”
  • French: “Administration autonome du Nord et de l’Est de la Syrie”
  • French: “Administration transitoire intérimaire”
  • French: “Système fédéral démocratique de Syrie du Nord”
  • French: “Zone sous contrôle de milices kurdes en Syrie”
  • Georgian: “როჟავა”
  • German: “Észak-Szíria autonóm régiója”
  • German: “Rojava”
  • German: “Selbstverwaltung von Nord- und Ostsyrien”
  • Gilaki: “رؤژاوا”
  • Greek: “Δυτικό Κουρδιστάν”
  • Greek: “Ροζάβα”
  • Hawaiian: “Komohana Kuludiskana”
  • Hawaiian: “Komohana Tulidiana”
  • Hebrew: “כורדיסטן הסורית”
  • Hindi: “रोजावा”
  • Hungarian: “Észak- és Kelet-Szíria autonóm közigazgatása”
  • Hungarian: “Rodzsava”
  • Hungarian: “Szír Kurdisztán”
  • Hungarian: “Szíriai Kurdisztán”
  • Icelandic: “Rojava”
  • Indonesian: “Rojava”
  • Irish: “Rojava”
  • Italian: “Amministrazione autonoma della Siria del Nord-Est”
  • Italian: “Amministrazione Autonoma della Siria del Nord-Est”
  • Italian: “Kurdistan Occidentale”
  • Italian: “Kurdistan siriano”
  • Italian: “Rojava”
  • Italian: “Siria del Nord-Est”
  • Japanese: “ロジャヴァ”
  • Kirghiz: “Сириялык Курдистан”
  • Korean: “로자바”
  • Korean: “북부 및 동부 시리아의 자치 행정”
  • Kurdish: “Başûr rojavayê Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başûr rojavayî Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başurê Biçûk”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê Biçûk”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê rojava - Binxetê”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê rojava yê Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê rojava”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê Rojavaya Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başurê rojavayê Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê Rojavayê Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrêrojavayê Kurdistan”
  • Kurdish: “Binxet”
  • Kurdish: “Kurdistana Rojava”
  • Kurdish: “Kurdistana Sûriyê”
  • Kurdish: “Rêveberiya Xweser a Bakur û Rojhilatê Sûriyeyê”
  • Kurdish: “Rêveberiya Xweseriya Demokratîk a Herêma Bakur û Rojhilatê Sûriyê”
  • Kurdish: “Rojava”
  • Kurdish: “Rojavaya Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “رۆژاڤایێ کوردستانێ”
  • Kurdish: “رێڤەبەریا خوەسەرئا باکورئوو رۆژهلاتێ سووریەیێ”
  • Latin: “Curdistania Syriaca”
  • Latvian: “Rožava”
  • Literary Chinese: “羅賈瓦”
  • Malayalam: “റൊജാവ”
  • Mazanderani: “روژاوا”
  • Mazanderani: “سوریه کوردستون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rojava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rojava”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Syrisk Kurdistan”
  • Norwegian: “Rojava”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Administracion Autonòma del Nòrd e Èst de Siria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Federacion Democratica del Nòrd de Siria”
  • Persian: “اداره خودمختار شمال و شرق سوریه”
  • Persian: “کردستان سوریه”
  • Polish: “Rojava”
  • Polish: “Rożawa”
  • Polish: “Zachodni Kurdystan”
  • Portuguese: “Administração Autônoma do Norte e Leste da Síria”
  • Portuguese: “Curdistão Sírio”
  • Portuguese: “Rojava”
  • Romanian: “Rojava”
  • Russian: “Автономная администрация северной и восточной Сирии”
  • Russian: “Демократическая Федерация Северной Сирии”
  • Russian: “Западный Курдистан”
  • Russian: “Рожава”
  • Russian: “Сирийский Курдистан”
  • Scots: “Rojava”
  • Serbian: “Западни Курдистан”
  • Serbian: “Сиријски Курдистан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sirijski Kurdistan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadni Kurdistan”
  • Sicilian: “Kurdistan Sirianu”
  • Slovak: “Autonómna samospráva Severnej a Východnej Sýrie”
  • Slovak: “Rojava”
  • Slovenian: “Rojava”
  • Slovenian: “Rožava”
  • Slovenian: “Sirijski Kurdistan”
  • Somali: “Maamulka Waqooyi iyo Bari ee Suuriya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوزئی و دوغو سوریه موختار ایداره‌ائتمه‌سی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوزئی و دوغو سوریه موختار ایداره‌سی”
  • Spanish: “Administración Autónoma del Norte y Este de Siria”
  • Spanish: “Administración Autónoma Democrática del Norte y Este de Siria”
  • Spanish: “ANES”
  • Spanish: “FDNS”
  • Spanish: “Federación Democrática del Norte de Siria”
  • Spanish: “Kurdistán sirio”
  • Spanish: “Norte de Siria”
  • Spanish: “Rojava”
  • Spanish: “Siria del Noroeste”
  • Swedish: “Rojava”
  • Swiss German: “Autonomi Verwautig z Nord- u Ostsyrie”
  • Swiss German: “Rojava (Westkurdistan)”
  • Tamil: “ரோஜாவா”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு மற்றும் கிழக்கு சிரியாவின் தன்னாட்சி நிர்வாகம்”
  • Thai: “เคอร์ดิสถานซีเรีย”
  • Thai: “ฝ่ายปกครองตนเองซีเรียเหนือและตะวันออก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Autonome Verwaltung von Nord- und Ostsyrien”
  • Turkish: “Batı Kürdistan Özerk Yönetimi”
  • Turkish: “KDSÖY”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey ve Doğu Suriye Demokratik Özerk Yönetimi Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey ve Doğu Suriye Demokratik Özerk Yönetimi”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey ve Doğu Suriye”
  • Turkish: “Rojava”
  • Turkish: “Suriye Kürdistanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Демократична автономна адміністрація Північної та Східної Сирії”
  • Ukrainian: “Рожава”
  • Ukrainian: “Сирійський Курдистан”
  • Urdu: “شمالی اور مشرقی سوریہ کی خود مختار انتظامیہ”
  • Urdu: “شمالی اور مشرقی شام کی خود مختار انتظامیہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Rojava”
  • Western Panjabi: “شمالی تے مشرقی شام دی خود مختار انتظامیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗贾瓦”
  • Yue Chinese: “西庫爾德斯坦”

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