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Place details
- Locality
- عفرين
- Region
- محافظة حلب
- Country
- سوريا
- Population
- 48,693
- Timezone
- Asia/Damascus
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Syria
- Governorate
- Aleppo
- District
- Afrin
- Subdistrict
- Afrin
- Mayor
- Khero Al-Dawod
- Total
- 3,850 km (1,490 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 270 m (890 ft)
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( Arabia Standard Time )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Located in
- Afrin Region
- Population
- +36562
- Area
- +3850
- Elevation
- +270
- Time zone
- Eastern European Time
- Capital of
- Afrin Subdistrict
- Official website
- afrinmeclis.com
- Image
- Afrin,south.jpg
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- P1889
Article
Afrin (Arabic: عفرين, romanized: Ifrīn; Kurdish: عەفرین, romanized: Efrîn) is a Kurdish majority city in northern Syria. In the Afrin District, it is part of the Aleppo Governorate. The total population of the district as of 2020 was recorded at 172,095 people, of whom 70,000 lived in the town of Afrin itself.
The town and district are named after the Afrin River. The city is split into two distinct halves by the river. It is located in the westernmost part of Syrian Kurdistan.