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.
- Type: Town with 88,000 residents
- Description: Yazidi town in northern Iraq
- Also known as: “Schingal”, “Shengal”, “Shingal”, “سنجر”, “ܫܝܓܪ”, “சிங்கால்”, and “スィンジャール”
Sinjar
- Category: locality
- Location: Nineveh Governorate, Northwestern Iraq, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sinjar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنجار”
- Armenian: “Սինջար”
- Asturian: “Sinjar”
- Azerbaijani: “Sincar”
- Belarusian: “Сынджар”
- Catalan: “Sinjar”
- Cebuano: “Sinjār”
- Central Kurdish: “شنگال”
- 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: “Sindschar”
- Greek: “Σιντζάρ”
- Hebrew: “סינג’אר”
- Hindi: “सिंजार”
- Indonesian: “Sinjar”
- Italian: “Sinjar”
- Japanese: “シンジャール”
- Japanese: “シンジャル”
- Kurdish: “Şingal”
- Kurdish: “Sncar”
- Kurdish: “شەنگال”
- Macedonian: “Синџар”
- Mazanderani: “سنجار”
- Nepali: “सिन्जार”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinjar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinjar”
- Norwegian: “Sinjar”
- 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”
- Tamil: “சிஞ்சார்”
- Turkish: “Sincar”
- Ukrainian: “Синджар”
- Urdu: “سنجار”
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