Kobani Canton
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Kobanî Canton Kantona Kobaniyê |
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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 27, 2014 | ||
| Administrative center | Kobanî | ||
| Government | |||
| • Prime Minister | Enver Muslim | ||
| Population | |||
| • Estimate (2004) | 322,227 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Area code | +963 21 | ||
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Kobanî Canton (Kurdish: Kantona Kobaniyê) is the central of four cantons of de facto autonomous Rojava in northern Syria, factually comprising Ayn al-Arab District of the Aleppo Governorate, Tell Abyad District of the Raqqa Governorate, and the westernmost tip of Nahiya Ras al-Ayn of the Ras al-Ayn District of Al-Hasakah Governorate. Kobanî Canton unilaterally declared autonomy in January 2014 and since de facto is under direct democratic government in line with the polyethnic Constitution of Rojava.
The cantonal capital city is Kobanî, which was under siege between October 2014 and January 2015 by ISIL.
The canton is bordered by Euphrates river to the west, Urfa Province of Turkey to the north, Jazira Canton to the east, Raqqa and Al-Thawrah Districts of the Raqqa Governorate of Syria to the south. At latitude approximately 36 and a half degrees north, its landscape consists of plains and low hills, rivers being Euphrates and Balikh. Part of the Fertile Crescent, its climate is mostly "warm mediterranean" on the Köppen climate classification, as opposed to the colder, semi-arid regions in its and further to the south and east.
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