Iraqi Kurdistan
Sulemania Governorate
Sulaymaniyah District

Sulemania

Sulemania was founded in 1784 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban, a Kurdish prince, to be the capital of his principality. Since then it has been ’s cultural capital and home to philosophers, poets and writers.
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  • Type: City with 823,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al Sulaimaniya, As Sulaymānīyah, Sleimāni, Slēmānī, Sulaimania, Sulaimanieh, Sulaimaniya, Sulaimany, Sulaymānīyah, السليمانية, As Sulaymaniyah, Sleimani, Slemani, Sulaimania, Sulaimanieh, Sulaimaniya, Sulaimany, Sulaymaniyah, سلێمانی”, “as-Sulaimānīya”, “as-Sulaymāniyyah”, “Silemani”, “Slemani”, “Slēmānī”, “Sulaimani”, “Sulaymaniyah”, “Sulaymānīyah”, and “Suleimaniyah”
Photo: Diyar Mohammed Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sulemania

Latitude
35.5571° or 35° 33′ 25″ north
Longitude
45.4426° or 45° 26′ 33″ east
Population
823,000
Elevation
847 metres (2,779 feet)
IATA airport code
ISU
United Nations Location Code
IQ SYH
Open location code
8H77HC4V+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 663060430
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
98463
Wiki­data ID
Q191204
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sulemania” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Albanian: “Sulejmanije”
  • Arabic: “السليمانية”
  • Arabic: “السليمانيه”
  • Arabic: “سليماني”
  • Armenian: “Սուլեյմանիա”
  • Asturian: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Süleymaniyyə”
  • Basque: “Silêmanî”
  • Basque: “Sulaimaniya”
  • Basque: “Suleimaniya”
  • Belarusian: “Сулейманія”
  • Bengali: “সুলায়মানিয়াহ”
  • Bulgarian: “Сулеймания”
  • Bulgarian: “Сюлеймания”
  • Catalan: “Silemani”
  • Catalan: “Sulaimaniya”
  • Catalan: “Sulaymaniya”
  • Catalan: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Catalan: “Sulaymaniyya”
  • Cebuano: “As Sulaymānīyah”
  • Cebuano: “Silêmanî”
  • Central Kurdish: “سلێمانی”
  • Central Kurdish: “سولەیمانی”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری سلێمانی”
  • Chinese: “苏莱曼尼亚”
  • Chinese: “蘇利曼尼亞”
  • Chinese: “蘇萊曼尼亞”
  • Croatian: “Silêmanî”
  • Croatian: “Sulejmanija”
  • Czech: “Sulajmáníja”
  • Czech: “Sulejmánie”
  • Danish: “Silemani”
  • Danish: “Silêmanî”
  • Danish: “Slêmanî”
  • Danish: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Danish: “Suleymanya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sılêmaniya”
  • Dutch: “Silemani”
  • Dutch: “Silêmanî”
  • Dutch: “Slemany”
  • Dutch: “Soeleimanija”
  • Dutch: “Sulaimaniya”
  • Dutch: “Sulaymaniya”
  • Dutch: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Dutch: “Suleimaniya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السليمانيه”
  • Esperanto: “Sulajmanija”
  • Esperanto: “Sulejmanijo”
  • Estonian: “As-Sulaymaniyah”
  • Estonian: “As-Sulaymānīyah”
  • Estonian: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Finnish: “As Sulaymaniyah”
  • Finnish: “as-Sulaimaniyya”
  • Finnish: “Sulaimania”
  • Finnish: “Sulaimaniyya”
  • French: “As-Sulaymaniya”
  • French: “Souleimaniye”
  • French: “Souleimaniyeh”
  • French: “Souleymaniah”
  • Georgian: “სულეიმანია”
  • German: “Silemani”
  • German: “Silêmanî”
  • German: “Slemani”
  • German: “Sulaimaniya”
  • German: “Sulaimaniyya”
  • German: “Sulamaniya”
  • German: “Sulaymania”
  • German: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • German: “Sulaymaniyya”
  • German: “Suleimanija”
  • German: “Süleymania”
  • Greek: “Σουλεϊμανίγια”
  • Gujarati: “સુલેમાનયા”
  • Hebrew: “סולימאניה”
  • Hebrew: “סולימניה”
  • Hindi: “सुलेमानिया”
  • Hindi: “सुलेमानियाः”
  • Hungarian: “Szulejmánijja”
  • Indonesian: “As-Sulaimaniyah”
  • Indonesian: “Silemani”
  • Indonesian: “Silêmanî”
  • Indonesian: “Sulaimaniyah”
  • Irish: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Italian: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Italian: “Sulaymaniyya”
  • Italian: “Suleimania”
  • Japanese: “スライマーニーヤ”
  • Japanese: “スレイマニーヤ”
  • Japanese: “スレイマニヤ”
  • Javanese: “Silêmanî”
  • Javanese: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಲೈಮಾನಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “술라이마니야”
  • Kurdish: “Silemani”
  • Kurdish: “Silêmanî”
  • Kurdish: “Silemaniye”
  • Kurdish: “Silêmaniye”
  • Kurdish: “Silêmaniyê”
  • Kurdish: “Slêmanî”
  • Kurdish: “Sulaimaniya”
  • Kurdish: “Sûleymaniye”
  • Kurdish: “سلێمانی”
  • Latin: “Suleimania”
  • Latvian: “Suleimānija”
  • Lithuanian: “Suleimanija”
  • Malay: “As Sulaimaniyah”
  • Malay: “As Sulaymaniyah”
  • Malay: “As-Sulaimaniyah”
  • Malay: “As-Sulaymaniyah”
  • Malay: “Silêmanî”
  • Malay: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Malayalam: “സുലൈമാനിയ”
  • Maori: “Suleymaniyah”
  • Marathi: “सुलेमानिया”
  • Mazanderani: “سلیمانیه”
  • Mingrelian: “სულეიმანია”
  • Moksha: “Сулэймания”
  • Nauru: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “As Sulaymaniyah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suleimania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suleimania”
  • Norwegian: “Suleimania”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܘܠܝܡܐܢܝܐ”
  • Ossetian: “Сулеймани”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “سلیمانیه”
  • Persian: “سلیمانیه”
  • Persian: “شهر سلیمانیه”
  • Polish: “As-Sulajmanijja”
  • Polish: “Sulajmanijja”
  • Portuguese: “As Sulaymaniyah”
  • Portuguese: “As-Sulaymaniyah”
  • Portuguese: “Suleimania”
  • Portuguese: “Suleimânia”
  • Romanian: “As Sulaymaniyah”
  • Romanian: “Silêmanî”
  • Russian: “Сулеймания”
  • Scots: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Serbian: “Сулејманија”
  • Sinhala: “සුලයිමනියා”
  • Slovenian: “Sulajmanija”
  • Slovenian: “Sulejmanija, Irak”
  • Slovenian: “Sulejmanija”
  • Spanish: “As Sulaymaniyah”
  • Spanish: “Solimania”
  • Spanish: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Spanish: “Suleimaniya”
  • Swedish: “As Sulaymaniyah”
  • Swedish: “As-Sulaimaniyya”
  • Swedish: “As-Sulaimāniyya”
  • Swedish: “As-Sulaymaniya”
  • Swedish: “As-Sulaymānīyä”
  • Swedish: “As-Sulaymaniyya”
  • Swedish: “Sharezur”
  • Swedish: “Silemani”
  • Swedish: “Slêmanî”
  • Swedish: “Sulaimaniya”
  • Swedish: “Sulaymaniya”
  • Swedish: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Swedish: “Sulaymaniyya”
  • Swedish: “Sulaymanya”
  • Swedish: “Suleimania”
  • Swedish: “Suleimaniya”
  • Swedish: “Sulimaniyah”
  • Talysh: “Sulejmanijə”
  • Talysh: “Suleymaniyyə”
  • Tamil: “சுலமனியா”
  • Tatar: “Сөләймания”
  • Telugu: “సులేమనియాహ్”
  • Thai: “อัสซุลัยมานียะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Süleymaniye”
  • Uighur: “سۇلەيمانىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Сулейманія”
  • Urdu: “سلیمانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Sulaymoniya”
  • Venetian: “Sulaymaniyya”
  • Vietnamese: “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sulamaniya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sulaymaniyah”
  • Western Panjabi: “سلێمانی”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇利曼尼亞”

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