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″N42°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 | |
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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, [1] [2] and economic exchange has since then begun to normalize between Northeastern Syria and the Kurdistan Region. [1]
