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Rojava

Democratic Federal System of Northern Syria
النظام الاتحادي الديمقراطي لشمال سوريا
Sîstema Federaliya Demokratîka Bakûrê Sûriyê
Flag of Rojava, or Syrian Kurdistan
Coat of arms of Rojava, or Syrian Kurdistan
Flag Coat of arms
Under NSR administration (green), claimed (orange)
Under NSR administration (green), claimed (orange)
Status De facto autonomous federation of Syria
Capital Qamişlo (Qamishli)
37°03′N 41°13′E / 37.050°N 41.217°E / 37.050; 41.217
Official languages Kurdish
Syriac-Aramaic
Arabic
Government Democratic socialist (Democratic Confederalism)
• Co-President
Hediya Yousef
• Co-President
Mansur Selum
Autonomous region
• Autonomy proposed
July 2013
• Autonomy declared
November 2013
• Regional government established
November 2013
• Interim constitution adopted
January 2014
• Federation declared
17 March 2016
Population
• 2014 estimate
4.6 million (half of them internal refugees)
Currency Syrian pound (SYP)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
Drives on the right

Rojava (IPA: [roʒɑˈvɑ], "the West" in Kurdish) is a de facto autonomous region originating in and consisting of three self-governing cantons in northern Syria, namely Afrin Canton, Jazira Canton and Kobanî Canton, as well as adjacent areas of northern Syria like Shahba region. The region gained its de facto autonomy as part of the ongoing Rojava conflict and the wider Syrian Civil War, establishing and gradually expanding a secular polity based on the Democratic Confederalism principles of democratic socialism, gender equality, and sustainability.

On 17 March 2016, its de facto administration self-declared the establishment of a federal system of government as the Federation of Northern Syria–Rojava (Kurdish: Federasyona Bakurê Sûriyê – Rojava‎, Arabic: فدرالية شمال سوريا - روجآڤا‎‎, commonly abbreviated as NSR). While entertaining some foreign relations, the NSR is not officially recognized as autonomous by the government of Syria or any international state or organization. The protagonists of the NSR consider its constitution a model for a federalized Syria as a whole. The updated December 2016 constitution of the polity uses the name Democratic Federal System of Northern Syria (Kurdish: Sîstema Federaliya Demokratîka Bakûrê Sûriyê‎, Arabic: النظام الاتحادي الديمقراطي لشمال سوريا‎‎).


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