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Sinjar

This article is about the Iraqi town. 'Sinjar' may also refer to its eponymous district, mountains, or nearby plain.

Sinjar
شنگاڵ
Şingal
Town
Sinjar in 2019
Sinjar in 2019
Sinjar is located in Iraq
Sinjar
Sinjar
Location within Iraq
Sinjar is located in Near East
Sinjar
Sinjar
Sinjar (Near East)
Coordinates: 36°19′21″N 41°51′51″E / 36.32250°N 41.86417°E / 36.32250; 41.86417
Country Iraq
GovernorateNineveh
DistrictSinjar District
Government
 • MayorFahad Hamid Omar[1]
Elevation
522 m (1,713 ft)
Population
 (2013)
 • Total88,023
Time zoneUTC+3 (GMT)

Sinjar (Arabic: سنجار, romanized: Sinjār;[2] Kurdish: شنگال, romanized: Şingal, Syriac: ܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Shingar[3]) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023,[4] and is predominantly Yazidi.[5]

  1. ^ "PKK Forms New Party in Sinjar". basnews.com. 25 June 2016.
  2. ^ "SINCAR IN THE LAST PERIOD OF OTTOMANS (SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL SITUATION)".
  3. ^ Thomas A. Carlson et al., "Sinjar – ܫܝܓܪ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified 30 June 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/184.
  4. ^ "Iraq: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Iraq's Yazidis still haunted by Sinjar massacres". France24. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2020.

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