Efrîn 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 | Democratic Federation of Northern Syria | ||
| 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, Arabic: مقاطعة عفرين, Syriac: ܦܠܩܐ ܕܥܦܪܝܢ, translit. Pelqo d'Afrin) 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 2016 Syrian census was 1.000.000.
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