Syria
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Ar-Raqqah Governorate

Tel Abyad

Tell Abyad is a town in northern . It is the administrative center of the within the . Located along the Balikh River, it constitutes a divided city with the bordering city of in .
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  • Type: Town with 14,800 residents
  • Description: village in Syria
  • Also known as: “Tal-Abyad” and “Tell Abyad”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akçakale.

Town
Photo: Zero, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,038 km2, and its population is 123,721. forms a divided city with Tell Abyad in , maintaining a border crossing.

Tel Abyad

Latitude
36.6946° or 36° 41′ 41″ north
Longitude
38.95° or 38° 57′ east
Population
14,800
Elevation
351 metres (1,152 feet)
Open location code
8G8WMWVX+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3584019751
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
163750
Wiki­data ID
Q1896205
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Tel Abyad” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تل أبيض”
  • Arabic: “تل ابيض”
  • Armenian: “Թել Աբյադ”
  • Asturian: “Tell Abyad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Təl-Əbyəz”
  • Catalan: “Tell Abyad”
  • Cebuano: “Tall Abyaḑ”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەل ئەبیەز”
  • Central Kurdish: “گرێ سپی”
  • Chinese: “泰勒艾卜耶德”
  • Czech: “Tel Abjad”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tel Ebyad”
  • Dutch: “Tell Abyad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل ابيض”
  • French: “Tall Abyad”
  • French: “Tell Abiad”
  • French: “Tell Abyad”
  • Georgian: “თელ-აბიადი”
  • German: “Tall Abyad”
  • German: “Tel Abjad”
  • German: “Tell Abjad”
  • Greek: “Τελ Αμπιάντ”
  • Greek: “Τελλ Αμπιάντ”
  • Hebrew: “תל אביד”
  • Hebrew: “תל אבייד”
  • Italian: “Tall Abyad”
  • Italian: “Tell Abyad”
  • Japanese: “タル・アビャド”
  • Japanese: “タル・アブヤド”
  • Korean: “탈아뱌드”
  • Korean: “텔아비야드”
  • Kurdish: “Girê Spî”
  • Mazanderani: “تل ابیض”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tell Abyad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tell Abyad”
  • Norwegian: “Tell Abyad”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܠ ܐܒܝܕ”
  • Persian: “تل ابیض”
  • Polish: “Tall Abjad”
  • Romanian: “Tell Abyad”
  • Russian: “Талль-Абяд”
  • Russian: “Тель-Абьяд”
  • Russian: “Эт-Телль-эль-Абьяд”
  • Scots: “Tell Abyad”
  • Silesian: “Tall Abjad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تل ابیض”
  • Spanish: “Tal Abiad”
  • Swedish: “Tall Abyad”
  • Swedish: “Tall Abyaḑ”
  • Turkish: “Tel Abyad”
  • Turkish: “Tell Abyad”
  • Urdu: “تل ابیض”

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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 “Tel Abyad”. Photo: Kevorkmail, CC BY-SA 3.0.