Yankjah

Yankjah (Arabic ينكجة) is a town in the Tooz District of Salah ad Din Governorate, near the border with Kirkuk Governorate, in northern Iraq, about 100 km from the Iranian border. It has a population of 25,000,^[1] mainly from Iraq's Sunni Turkoman ethnic minority.

Yankjah, along with Altun Kupri, Amerli, Bashir, Bustamli, Mahalabiyah, Qarah Tappah, Sulaiman Bek, Tal Afar, Taza Khurmatu, and Tuz Khormato, make up the largest Turkmen-majority cities in Iraq, while Mosul, Kirkuk, Kifri, Daquq, Muqdadiyah, Jalawla, and Saadiyah have significant Turkmen minority populations.

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