Iraq
NW Iraq
Nineveh Governorate

Sinjar

Shingal is a town in immediately south of Mount Sinjar. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023. The important Chermera temple is found on the highest peak of the Sinjar Mountains.
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  • Type: Town with 88,000 residents
  • Description: Yazidi town in northern Iraq
  • Also known as: “Shengal” and “Shingal”

Sinjar

Latitude
36.3193° or 36° 19′ 9″ north
Longitude
41.8599° or 41° 51′ 36″ east
Population
88,000
Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)
Open location code
8H838V95+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4855911802
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
448149
Wiki­data ID
Q955690
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Sinjar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سنجار”
  • Arabic: “سنجر”
  • Armenian: “Սինջար”
  • Asturian: “Sinjar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sincar”
  • Belarusian: “Сынджар”
  • Catalan: “Sinjar”
  • Cebuano: “Sinjār”
  • Central Kurdish: “شنگال”
  • Central Kurdish: “شەنگال”
  • Chinese: “辛賈爾”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܫܝܓܳܪ”
  • Croatian: “Sindžar”
  • Czech: “Sindžár”
  • Danish: “Sinjar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şengal”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sincar”
  • Dutch: “Sinjar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سنجار”
  • Esperanto: “Sinjar”
  • Finnish: “Sindžar”
  • French: “Sindjar”
  • French: “Sinjar”
  • French: “Sinjâr”
  • German: “Schingal”
  • German: “Sindschar”
  • German: “Sinjar”
  • Greek: “Σιντζάρ”
  • Hebrew: “סינג’אר”
  • Hindi: “सिंजार”
  • Indonesian: “Sinjar”
  • Italian: “Sinjar”
  • Japanese: “シンジャール”
  • Japanese: “シンジャル”
  • Japanese: “スィンジャール”
  • Kurdish: “Şingal”
  • Macedonian: “Синџар”
  • Mazanderani: “سنجار”
  • Nepali: “सिन्जार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinjar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinjar”
  • Norwegian: “Sinjar”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܫܝܓܪ‎”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܫܝܓܳܪ”
  • Persian: “سنجار”
  • Persian: “شنگال”
  • Polish: “Sindżar”
  • Portuguese: “Sinjar”
  • Romanian: “Sinjar”
  • Russian: “Синджар”
  • Serbian: “Синџар”
  • Slovenian: “Sindžar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنجار”
  • Spanish: “Sinjar”
  • Spanish: “Sinyar”
  • Swedish: “Sinjar”
  • Swedish: “Sinjār”
  • Tamil: “சிங்கால்”
  • Tamil: “சிஞ்சார்”
  • Turkish: “Şengal”
  • Turkish: “Sincar”
  • Ukrainian: “Синджар”
  • Urdu: “سنجار”

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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 “Sinjar”. Photo: Nawaf shengaly, CC BY-SA 4.0.