Skip to content
Vinony
English
EnglishBahasa IndonesiaDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoNederlandsPolskiPortuguêsSvenskaTiếng ViệtTürkçeРусскийالعربيةفارسیไทย한국어中文日本語
Aïn al-Arab

File:KobanéVOA1.JPG · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ126415· pop 62· linked from 573 articles

Aïn al-Arab

Sign in to save

Also known as عين العرب, Kobanî, Kobane, Kobani

Kobanî, also Kobane, Ayn al-Arab, is a Kurdish-majority city in the Ayn al-Arab District in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border.

OverviewAI-generated

Aïn al-Arab, also known as Kobanî, is a city and border town in Syria. It serves as the capital of the Kobani Subdistrict and Kobani District within the Aleppo Governorate. The city is located in the UTC+02:00 time zone and shares a border with Turkey. Established in 1915, it has an area of 7 square kilometers and an elevation of approximately 520 meters above sea level.

The population of Aïn al-Arab is recorded as 45,057. It is twinned with Municipio VIII. A significant event associated with the city is the Siege of Kobanî. The local postal code is C1946.

Synthesized by Vinony from 49 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Meteo, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Weather now

cached 6h ago
24°clear sky
33% 3.1 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality
عين العرب
Region
محافظة حلب
Country
سوريا
Population
50,000
Timezone
Asia/Damascus

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

54US AQIModerate
PM2.5
12.5 µg/m³
PM10
17.2 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 03:00 · Open-Meteo

Key facts

Settlement.name
Kobani
Settlement.official_name
Ayn al-Arab
Settlement.settlement_type
City
Settlement.image_skyline
KobanéVOA1.JPG
Settlement.image_caption
View of Kobanî during the siege in 2014
Settlement.pushpin_map
Syria#Asia
Settlement.pushpin_label
Kobani
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location of Kobani in Syria
Settlement.map_alt
Map showing the location of Kobani in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Settlement.map_caption
Location of Kobani in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Settlement.mapframe
yes
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Aleppo
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Ayn al-Arab
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Subdistrict

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official name
عين العرب
Country
Syria
Located in
Kobani Subdistrict
Population
44821
Area
7
Elevation
520
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Capital of
Kobani Subdistrict
Shares border with
Turkey
Image
KobanéVOA1.JPG
Significant event
Siege of Kobanî
Show 7 more facts
topic's main category
Category:Kobanî
Commons category
Kobanî
postal code
C1946
twinned administrative body
Municipio VIII
native label
Kobanî
inception
1915-00-00
P8168
Powielin
Sources (4)

via Wikidata · CC0

~19 min read

Encyclopedic overview

25 sections
Contents
  • Names
  • History
  • Ottoman period
  • French Mandate
  • Syria pre-autonomy
  • Syrian Civil War
  • Siege by ISIL
  • Reaction
  • June 2015 massacre
  • Reconstruction and development
  • Entry of Syrian and Russian forces
  • After the fall of the Assad Regime
  • Geography
  • Climate
  • Media
  • Notable people
  • Notable sights
  • International relations
  • See also
  • References
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • Works cited
  • Further reading
  • External links

Kobanî, also Kobane, Ayn al-Arab, is a Kurdish-majority city in the Ayn al-Arab District in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border.

As a consequence of the Syrian civil war, the city came under the control of the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in 2012 and became the administrative center of the Kobani Canton, later transformed into Euphrates Region of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aïn al-Arab” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (14)

On the map

Available in 59 languages

Show 40 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0