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Tal Afar is a city in Iraq, situated within the Nineveh Governorate. Its native name is تلعفر. The city is located at an elevation of 410 meters above sea level. It has a population of 80,000. The Battle of Tal Afar is a significant event associated with the location.
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Place details
- Locality
- تلعفر
- Region
- محافظة نینوى
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 0
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
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Key facts
- Country
- Iraq
- Governorate
- Nineveh Governorate
- District
- Tel Afar District
- Elevation
- 1,350 ft (410 m)
- Total
- 215,000
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00 ( AST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- تلعفر
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Nineveh Governorate
- Population
- 80000
- Elevation
- 410
- Image
- Tal Afar Castle.jpg
- Significant event
- Battle of Tal Afar
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- Commons category
- Tal Afar
- native label
- تلعفر
- different from
- Tal Aafar
- P12749
- Pidie Jaya
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Travel guide
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thumb|View of Tal Afar Citadel, before being damaged by ISIS in 2014.
In the center of the city are found the remnants of an Ottoman Empire fortress or castle.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
~19 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Tal Afar (Arabic: تَلْعَفَر, romanized: Talʿafar, IPA: [talˈʕafar]; Turkish: Telafer, تلعفر) is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located 63 km (39 mi) west of Mosul, 52 km (32 mi) east of Sinjar and 200 km (120 mi) northwest of Kirkuk. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmens.
While no official census data exists, the city, which had previously been estimated to have a population of approximately 200,000, had dropped to 80,000 as of 2007. In 2003, Tal Afar's Turkmen population in the city center was about 85 percent Shia, while 15 percent was Sunni. On 27 April 2025, Baghdad Today reported of an ongoing government initiative to convert Tal Afar District into the 20th governorate of Iraq. The proposed name of the new governorate is Jazira.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tal Afar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.