Afrin Canton
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Afrin Canton Kantona Efrînê |
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| one of four de facto autonomous cantons of the region of Rojava in Syria |
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 The three cantons of Rojava: Afrin Canton (orange), Kobanî Canton (red), Jazira Canton (green), and the Shahba region (pink) |
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 Syria
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| Governorate | Aleppo | ||
| De facto Administration | Federation of Northern Syria - Rojava | ||
| Autonomy declared | January 29, 2014 | ||
| Administrative center | Afrin | ||
| Government | |||
| • Prime Minister | Hevi Ibrahim | ||
| Population | |||
| • Estimate (2017) | 1,000,000+ | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Area code | +963 21 | ||
| Website | http://cantonafrin.com/en/ | ||
Afrin Canton (Kurdish: Kantona Efrînê) is the westernmost of the four cantons of Rojava. It was declared autonomous in January 2014. The canton was established on Afrin District of the Aleppo Governorate of Syria. The administrative center of the canton is the town of Afrin. The prime minister of Afrin Canton is Hevi Ibrahim.
Afrin is the furthest west and most mountainous part of Rojava. It consists of southern part of the Kurd Mountains. Afrîn Canton is bordered by the de facto Shahba region to the east, Kilis Province of Turkey to the north and Hatay Province of Turkey to the west, Al-Dana Nahiyah of the Harem District of Idlib and Mount Simeon District of Aleppo Governorates of Syria to the south.
The population of the Afrin Canton area is overwhelmingly ethnic Kurdish, to the degree that the canton has been described as "homogeneously Kurdish". Its overall population number according to the 2004 Syrian census was 172,095.
Cities and towns with more than 10.000 inhabitants according to the 2004 Syrian census are Afrin (36,562) and Jandairis (13,661).
Throughout the course of the Syrian Civil War, Afrin Canton has been a safe haven for inbound refugees of all ethnicities, fleeing violence and destruction from civil war factions, in particular the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the diverse more or less Islamist rebel groups of the Syrian opposition. According to a June 2016 estimate from the International Middle East Peace Research Center, about 316,000 displaced Syrians of Kurdish,Yazidis, Arab and Turkmen ethnicity lived in Afrin Canton at the time.
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