Sinjar Mountains

The Sinjar Mountains, is a 100-kilometre-long mountain range that runs east to west, rising above the surrounding alluvial steppe plains in northwestern to an elevation of 1,463 meters.
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  • Type: Hill
  • Description: mountain range in Iraq and Syria
  • Also known as: “Shengal Mountains” and “Shengar Mountains”

Sinjar Mountains

Latitude
36.3632° or 36° 21′ 48″ north
Longitude
41.7199° or 41° 43′ 12″ east
Open location code
8H839P79+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 296735164
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­hill
Wiki­data ID
Q1261898
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Satellite Map

Discover Sinjar Mountains from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Sinjar Mountains” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل السنجار”
  • Arabic: “جبل سنجار”
  • Asturian: “Jebel Sinjar”
  • Catalan: “Jabal Sinjar”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای شنگال”
  • Chinese: “辛賈爾山”
  • Chinese: “辛賈爾山區”
  • Chinese: “辛賈爾山脈”
  • Chinese: “辛贾尔山”
  • Croatian: “Singarsko gorje”
  • Czech: “džabal Sindžár”
  • Czech: “Džabal Sindžár”
  • Czech: “Sindžár”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Koyê Sincari”
  • Dutch: “Sinjar Mountains”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سنجار”
  • Finnish: “Sindžarin vuoristo”
  • French: “Monts Sinjar”
  • German: “Dschabal Sindschar”
  • Hebrew: “הרי סינג’אר”
  • Hungarian: “Szindzsár-hegység”
  • Indonesian: “Jabal Sinjar”
  • Indonesian: “Jebel Sinjar”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Shengal”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Shengar”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Sinjar”
  • Italian: “Gebel Singiar”
  • Italian: “Jebel Sinjar”
  • Italian: “Jebel Sinjār”
  • Japanese: “シンジャル山脈”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Şingalê”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayên Şingalê”
  • Ladin: “Dschabal Sindschar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jebel Sinjar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinjarfjella”
  • Norwegian: “Jebel Sinjar”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܘܪ ܫܝܓܪ”
  • Persian: “رشته کوه سنجار”
  • Persian: “کوه سنجار”
  • Polish: “Góry Sindżar”
  • Portuguese: “Montanhas Sinjar”
  • Russian: “Джебель-Синджар”
  • Russian: “Синджар”
  • Spanish: “Jabal Sinjar”
  • Spanish: “Jebel Sinjar”
  • Swedish: “Sinjarbergen”
  • Tamil: “சிஞ்சார் மலைகள்”
  • Turkish: “Sincar dağları”
  • Turkish: “Sincar Dağları”
  • Ukrainian: “Синджар”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінджар”
  • Venetian: “Jebel Sinjar”

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