Ranya District
Ranya District is a district of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq.
Ranya District is a district of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq. Its capital is Ranya. The district has a population of 200,826. The district includes three towns, Çiwarqurne, Bêtwate and Hacî awa, and is the centre of the Bîtwên and Raperîn area. The region of Ranya has been inhabited since ancient times and is rich in archaeologic sites such as Tell Shemshara, Tell Bazmusian, Qalatga Darband, Girdedême, Kameryan and Boskin hills and Ranya castle. Its history as a district dates from the Ottoman Empire period in 1789 when the first district commissioner was appointed. The main tribes in Ranya are the Jaff, Bilbas, Ako and Shawri. The area is well known for its fertile soil. The principle crops are sunflowers, tobacco, rice, wheat and barley.
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Worth seeing in and around Ranya District
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sulaymaniyah Museum
The Sulaymaniyah Museum, or Slemani Museum, is an archeological museum located in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is the second largest museum in Iraq, after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.
1.1 km · Archaeological museum in Kurdistan Region, Iraq · Wikipedia - 02Amna Suraka
Amna Suraka is a museum in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
1.5 km · museum in Sulaimaniyya, Kurdistan Region of Iraq · Wikipedia - 03Ibrahim Pasha Baban
The Great Mosque of Sulaymaniyah, also known as the Grand Mosque and as the Sheikh Ahmad Mosque, is a Sunni mosque located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The mosque contains the tomb of Haji Kaka Ahmad, a Kurdish cleric who was known for his donations of food to the needy.
1.1 km · It is one of Iraq's historic archaeological mosques. It was built by Prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban in 1784 . The Mosque of Sulaymaniyah is the first mosque established in the city of Sulaymaniyah · Wikipedia - 04Kurd's Heritage Museum (Sulaymaniyah)
The Kurd's Heritage Museum, is a history museum located within the heart of Mawlawi Street of the downtown of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The museum is owned by the Revival of Kurd's Heritage Organisation but administratively, the museum is affiliated with the Sulaymaniyah Directorate of Antiquities and the Sulaymaniyah Museum.
900 m · History museum about Kurd's heritage · Wikipedia - 05Sulaymaniyah Stadium
Sulaymaniyah Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Sulaymaniyah FC. In 2017, Sulaymaniyah Stadium became the first stadium in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to be internationally recognized by the Asian Football Confederation.
400 m · stadium in Iraq · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ranya District
- Airports
- Kirkuk (KIK), 99 km · Erbil (EBL), 154 km · Baghdad / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), 277 km
- Kirkuk → Ranya District96 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · $11–15
- Arbil → Ranya District67 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · $8–11
- Baghdad → Ranya District329 km · quickest by road, 6h 35m · $31–43
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ranya District
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ranya District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Ranya District
Ranya District is 2 km from Sulaymaniyah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.