Semalka Border Crossing
Semalka Border Crossing معبر سيمالكا الحدودي / Deriyê Sêmalka | |
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Border crossing at Semalka between Iraq and Syria on the Tigris River for trading food, oil, electronics, and other goods. | |
| Coordinates | 37°05′22″N 42°21′00″E / 37.089323°N 42.349890°E |
| Carries | Pedestrians, vehicles, containers |
| Crosses | Tigris River |
| Locale | Khanik, Syria Faysh Khabur, Kurdistan Region |
| Begins | Khanik, Syria |
| Ends | Faysh Khabur, Kurdistan Region, Iraq |
| Official name | Semalka Border Crossing |
| Maintained by | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Iraqi Kurdistan |
| Website | semalka |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Pontoon bridge |
| Traversable? | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | Permanently open since June 2016 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | Trade (food, oil, electronics, and other goods) |
| Location | |
Semalka Border Crossing (Arabic: معبر سيمالكا الحدودي; Kurdish: Deriyê Sêmalka), is a border crossing established between the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq and the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria during the Syrian Civil War about 1 km downstream from the Iraqi–Syrian–Turkish tripoint and just north of Faysh Khabur in Iraq and Khanik in Syria consisting of a pontoon bridge across the Tigris.
The border crossing has been intermittently closed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), but has been open permanently since June 2016, and economic exchange has since then begun to normalize between Northeastern Syria and the Kurdistan Region.