Sinjar
Shingal is a town in Iraq 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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Latitude
36.3193° or 36° 19′ 9″ north
Longitude
41.8599° or 41° 51′ 36″ east
Open location code
8H838V95+PW
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sinjar” goes by many names.
سنجارArabic
سنجرArabic
ՍինջարArmenian
SinjarAsturian
SincarAzerbaijani
СынджарBelarusian
SinjarCatalan
SinjārCebuano
شنگالCentral Kurdish
شەنگالCentral Kurdish
辛賈爾Chinese
ܫܝܓܳܪClassical Syriac
SindžarCroatian
SindžárCzech
SinjarDanish
ŞengalDimli (individual language)
SincarDimli (individual language)
SinjarDutch
سنجارEgyptian Arabic
SinjarEsperanto
SindžarFinnish
ΣιντζάρGreek
סינג’ארHebrew
सिंजारHindi
SinjarIndonesian
SinjarItalian
シンジャールJapanese
シンジャルJapanese
スィンジャールJapanese
ŞingalKurdish
SncarKurdish
شەنگالKurdish
СинџарMacedonian
سنجارMazanderani
सिन्जारNepali
SinjarNorwegian
SinjarNorwegian Bokmål
SinjarNorwegian Nynorsk
ܫܝܓܪOfficial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
سنجارPersian
شنگالPersian
SindżarPolish
SinjarRomanian
СинджарRussian
СинџарSerbian
SindžarSlovenian
سنجارSouth Azerbaijani
SinjārSwedish
சிங்கால்Tamil
சிஞ்சார்Tamil
ŞengalTurkish
SincarTurkish
СинджарUkrainian
سنجارUrdu
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