Sinjar
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Sinjar (; , ) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023, and is predominantly Yazidi.
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- Settlement.official_name
- Sinjar
- Settlement.native_name
- سنجار
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sinjar.jpg
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- Sinjar in 2019
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- Location within Iraq
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- Iraq#Near East
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- yes
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- Country
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- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nineveh
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- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sinjar District
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Fahad Hamid Omar
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 522
- Settlement.population_total
- 88,023
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2013
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 22549
- Elevation
- 522
- Image
- Views around the city center of Shingal (Sinjar) in summer of 2019, following the war with the Islamic State 16.jpg
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- سنجار
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Sinjar (; , ) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023, and is predominantly Yazidi.
==History== ===Antiquity=== thumb|upright=.8|left|A map of the Upper Mesopotamia|Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) province in the early Islamic era
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