LeeskoAtlas

City

Erbil

Iraq

Watercolour of Erbil, Iraq. Centered on its ancient UNESCO World Heritage Citadel mound and the Grand Bazaar, with UNESCO World Heritage Erbil Citadel and Shar Garden Square.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
UNESCO World Heritage Erbil Citadel; Shar Garden Square; Mudhafaria Minaret; Qaysari Bazaar; Kurdish-Ottoman; Zagros Mountains; lush northern Mesopotamian flora; Mesopotamian
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking up from Shar Garden Square toward the dramatic oval cliff of the Citadel, showing fountain water jets and plane tree branches in the foreground, the vibrant pedestrian square and the steep earthen slope in the middle-ground, and the unbroken fortified brick perimeter of the Citadel crowned with timber balconies rising against the soft sky in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick canopies of plane trees and pines around Shar Garden Square, Minare Park, and Sami Abdulrahman Park.
Guarded against
Not Baghdad, Mosul, or Sulaymaniyah
Population1,612,700Wikidata: 846,000
Coordinates36.19°N, 44.01°E
Elevation420 m
Area12,000 km²
Time zoneAsia/BaghdadUTC+3
Solar noon12:04clock runs 0.1 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Erbil and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands — 1,358 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

MosulIQ82 km
Al Mawşil al JadīdahIQ82 km
KirkukIQ87 km
TabrizIR292 km
Sadr CityIQ314 km
BaghdadIQ319 km
DiyarbakırTR387 km
KarbalaIQ397 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Erbil inside this atlas.

This city sits on

Wikipedia