Yankjah


Yankjah (ينكجة, Turkoman, Yengiche is a town in the Tooz District of Saladin Governorate, near the border with Kirkuk Governorate, in northern Iraq, about from the Iranian border. It has a population of 25,000, mainly from Iraq's Sunni Turkoman ethnic group.
Yankjah, along with Altun Kupri, Amerli, Bashir, Bustamli, Mahalabiyah, Qarah Tappah, Sulaiman Bek, Tal Afar, Taza Khurmatu, and Tuz Khurmatu, make up the largest Iraqi Turkoman-majority cities in Iraq, while Mosul, Kirkuk, Kifri, Daquq, Muqdadiyah, Jalawla, and Al-Sadiyah have significant Turkmen minority populations.