Tal Afar
Tal Afar is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located 63 km west of Mosul, 52 km east of Sinjar and 200 km northwest of Kirkuk. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmens.
Photo: Kparker84, Public domain.- City with 80,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 407 metres (1,335 feet)
- Description: city in Nineveh Governorate, northwestern Iraq
- Also known as“Tal Afar, Tal Afar, Talaafar, Tall Afar, Tel Afar, تلعفر, Tal Afar, Tal Afar, Talaafar, Tall Afar, Tel Afar, تلعفر”“Tala’afar”“Tall‘afar”
Tal Afar
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- Location
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Latitude
36.374° or 36° 22′ 27″ north
Longitude
42.4435° or 42° 26′ 37″ east
UN/LOCODE
IQ TAF
Open location code
8H849CFV+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Armenian: “Թալ Աֆար”
- 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”
- Croatian: “Tal Afar”
- 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: “Telefer”
- Mazanderani: “تلعفر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tal Afar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tal Afar”
- Norwegian: “Tal Afar”
- Persian: “تلعفر”
- Persian: “تلعفر”
- Polish: “Tal Afar”
- Polish: “Tall Afar”
- Portuguese: “Tal Afar”
- Romanian: “Tal Afar”
- Russian: “Талль-Афар”
- Serbian: “Тал Афар”
- Serbian: “Тел Афар”
- Silesian: “Tall Afar”
- Slovenian: “Tal 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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