NW Iraq
Nineveh
Tel Afar District

Tal Afar

Tal Afar is a city in the of northwestern , located 63 km west of , 52 km east of and 200 km northwest of . Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmen.
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  • Type: City with 80,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Tal ‘Afar”, “Tal Afar, Tal Afar, Talaafar, Tall Afar, Tel Afar, تلعفر, Tal Afar, Tal Afar, Talaafar, Tall Afar, Tel Afar, تلعفر”, “Tala’afar”, and “Tall‘afar”

Tal Afar

Latitude
36.374° or 36° 22′ 27″ north
Longitude
42.4435° or 42° 26′ 37″ east
Population
80,000
Elevation
407 metres (1,335 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ TAF
Open location code
8H849CFV+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6007351271
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
90393
Wiki­data ID
Q990427
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tal Afar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تل أعفر”
  • Arabic: “تل عفر”
  • Arabic: “تلعفر”
  • Asturian: “Tal Afar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Telafer şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Təlafər şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Təlafər”
  • Bulgarian: “Тал Афар”
  • Catalan: “Tal Afar”
  • Cebuano: “Tall ‘Afar”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەلەعفەر”
  • Chinese: “泰勒阿費爾”
  • Chinese: “泰勒阿费尔”
  • Czech: “Tal Afar”
  • Dutch: “Tal Afar”
  • Dutch: “Tel Afar”
  • Dutch: “Tell Afar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تلعفر”
  • Esperanto: “Tal Afar”
  • Estonian: “Tal Afar”
  • Estonian: “Tall ‘Afar”
  • Estonian: “Tall Afar”
  • Finnish: “Tal Afar”
  • Finnish: “Telafar”
  • French: “Talafar”
  • French: “Tall Afar”
  • French: “Tell Afar”
  • German: “Tal Afar”
  • German: “Tall Afar”
  • German: “Tel Afar”
  • German: “Telafar”
  • German: “Tell Afar”
  • Hebrew: “תל עפאר”
  • Hebrew: “תל עפר”
  • Hebrew: “תל-עפר”
  • Hebrew: “תלעפר”
  • Italian: “Tell Afar”
  • Japanese: “タッル・アファル”
  • Japanese: “タル・アファル”
  • Japanese: “タルアファル”
  • Kazakh: “Tallʹ-Afar”
  • Kazakh: “Талль-Афар”
  • Kazakh: “تالل-افار”
  • Korean: “탈아파르”
  • Kurdish: “Tele‘fer”
  • Kurdish: “تەلەعفەر”
  • Mazanderani: “تلعفر”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tal Afar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tal Afar”
  • Norwegian: “Tal Afar”
  • Persian: “تل‌عفر”
  • Persian: “تلعفر”
  • Polish: “Tal Afar”
  • Polish: “Tall Afar”
  • Romanian: “Tal Afar”
  • Russian: “Талль-Афар”
  • Silesian: “Tall Afar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تلعفر”
  • Spanish: “Tal Afar”
  • Swedish: “Tal Afar”
  • Swedish: “Tall ‘Afar”
  • Tatar: “Тәл-Гафәр”
  • Thai: “ตัลอะฟัร”
  • Turkish: “Tal Afar”
  • Turkish: “Telafer”
  • Ukrainian: “Таль-Афар”
  • Urdu: “تلعفر”
  • Western Panjabi: “تلعفر”

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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 Wikipedia page “Tal Afar”. Photo: Kparker84, Public domain.