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Place details
- Locality
- کارێز خوار
- Region
- محافظة ديالى
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 175,000
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Khanaqin
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- جسر الوند الأثري في مدينة خانقين.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Alwand River in Khanaqin with the historical Alwand Bridge on top of it
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Khanaqin in Iraq
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iraq
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Khanaqin's location inside Iraq
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Diyala Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Khanaqin
- Settlement.established_date
- 1784
- Settlement.elevation_ft
- 602
- Settlement.population_total
- 175,000
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2008
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ku
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- خانقين
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Diyala Governorate
- Population
- 11791
- Elevation
- 602
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- جسر الوند الأثري في مدينة خانقين.jpg
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- Category:Khanaqin
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- Khanaqin
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- خانقين
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Climate
- Demographics
- Ethnicity
- Religion
- Alwand Bridge
- Jewish community
- Notable people
- See also
- References
Khanaqin (; ) is the central city of Khanaqin District in Diyala Governorate, Iraq, near the Iranian border (8 km) on the Alwand tributary of the Diyala River. The town is populated by Kurds who speak the Southern Kurdish dialect. Khanaqin is situated on the main road which Shia pilgrims use when visiting holy Islamic cities. The city is rich in oil, and the first Iraqi oil refinery and oil pipeline was built nearby in 1927. The main tribes of Khanaqin include Kalhor, Feyli, Zand, Malekshahi Suramiri, Arkavazi and Zangana.
The city experienced Arabization during the Saddam era, but this has been substantially reversed after the fall of the regime in 2003 and remains disputed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khanaqin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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