Tal Afar

Tal Afar
تَلْعَفَر
Tal Afar Citadel
Tal Afar is located in Iraq
Tal Afar
Tal Afar
Location of Tel Afar within Iraq
Coordinates: 36°22′27″N 42°26′36″E / 36.37417°N 42.44333°E / 36.37417; 42.44333
Country Iraq
GovernorateNineveh Governorate
DistrictTel Afar District
Elevation
1,350 ft (410 m)
Population
 (2024)[citation needed]
 • Total215,000

Tal Afar[1] (Arabic: تَلْعَفَر, romanizedTalʿafar, IPA: [talˈʕafar] Turkish: Telafer) is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located 63 km (39 mi) west of Mosul,[2] 52 km (32 mi) east of Sinjar[2] and 200 km (120 mi) northwest of Kirkuk. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmen.[3]

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.[4] Tal Afar's population is about 85 percent Sunni Turkmen, while a 15 percent are Shia Turkmen.[5]

  1. ^ Also commonly romanized as Tel Afar or Tal'Afar
  2. ^ a b google maps, Tel Afar. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  3. ^ "The Ba'ath Party and Insurgency in Tal Afar" (PDF).
  4. ^ The Real Surge Story (Washington Post)
  5. ^ "Irak'ta Direnen Bir Türkmen Kenti: Telafer". Dinç Ahmet,“Türkiye’nin Irak Başarısı Telafer’den Geçer”, Global Strateji, Sonbahar 2005, Yıl 1 Sayı 2, s. 105-106 (in Turkish). January 8, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2011.

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