Khanaqin

Also known as Khanaqeen

In the Vinony graph

The entry is geolocated on the map in IQ, across 3 mapped points.

Vinony's link graph records 291 inbound references to Khanaqin, and connects out to Arabs, Kurdistan Region of Iraq and UTC+03:00.

It is catalogued under topics including Cities in Iraq, District capitals of Iraq and Historic Jewish communities in Iraq.

Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.

Weather now

cached 2154h ago

33°clear sky

18% 2.1 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality: کارێز خوار
Region: محافظة ديالى
Country: العراق
Population: 175,000
Timezone: Asia/Baghdad

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

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

via Wikipedia infobox

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

Show 4 more facts

topic's main category: Category:Khanaqin
Commons category: Khanaqin
native label: خانقين
P12749: Tupac Shakur

Sources (4)

via Wikidata · CC0

~7 min read

Encyclopedic overview

10 sections

Contents

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.