Afrin may refer to:

Places

Afrin Canton Afrin Canton (; ; ) was one of the cantons of Rojava. Syria's Afrin District fell under the control of the People's Protection Units (YPG) around 2012 and an "Afrin Canton" (now Afrin Region) was declared in 2014. Afrin Canton in its latest form ...

, one of the cantons of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria *

Afrin District Afrin District (, Kurdish: Herêma Efrînê) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Afrin. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 172,095. Also available in English: Afrin ...

, a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Afrin *

Afrin Subdistrict Afrin Subdistrict (, ) is a subdistrict of Afrin District in northwestern Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria. The administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or t ...

, a subdistrict of the Afrin District *

Afrin Region Afrin Region (; ; ) was the westernmost of the three original regions of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The region previously had two subordinate cantons, the Afrin Canton, consisting of the Afrin city area (with the ...

, the westernmost of the three regions of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria *

Afrin River The Afrin River ( ''Nahr ʻIfrīn''; ; northern Syrian vernacular: ''Nahər ʻAfrīn''; ) is a tributary of the Orontes River in Turkey and Syria. It rises in the Kartal Mountains in Gaziantep Province of Turkey, flows south through the city of ...

, a river in Turkey and Syria **

Afrin Dam The Afrin Dam (), officially 17 April Dam (), also called Maydanki Dam (), is an earth-filled water storage and hydroelectric power dam on the Afrin River in northwest Syria. It provides drinking water to almost 200,000 people, irrigates about o ...

, dam on the Afrin River in northwest Syria *

Afrin, Syria Afrin (; ) is a Kurdish majority city in northern Syria. In the Afrin District, it is part of the Aleppo Governorate. The total population of the district was recorded at 172,095 people, of whom 70,000 lived in the town of Afrin itself. The ...

, a city in northwestern Syria, administratively part of Aleppo Governorate

Institutions

Afrin SC Afrin Sports Club (; ) is a Syrian professional football club based in Afrin. The club was founded in 1984, and competed in the Syrian Premier League The Syrian Premier League () is a professional association football league in Syria and the ...

, a football club based in Afrin, Syria *

University of Afrin Afrin University () was an unrecognized university in the city of Afrin in northern Syria, when Afrin was a part of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). It was the second university to open in the AANES (after the Meso ...

, an unrecognized university established in the city of Afrin by the Afrin Canton Board of Education

Products

Oxymetazoline Oxymetazoline, sold under the brand name Afrin among others, is a topical decongestant and vasoconstrictor medication. It is available over-the-counter as a nasal spray to treat nasal congestion and nosebleeds, as eye drops to treat eye rednes ...

, sold under the brand name Afrin in the United States, is an over-the-counter nasal spray medication to treat congestion

People

Given name

Afrin Ali Afrin Ali née Aparupa Poddar (born 8 January 1986) is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th 17th Lok Sabha from Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal. She won the 2014 & 2019 Indian general election as an All I ...

(born 1986), Indian politician

Surname

Jill Afrin Jill Afrin (born 1962) is a psychiatrist who specializes in working with deaf populations in South Carolina, and is also credited as the first telepsychiatrist in the state. Biography Afrin was born in Suffern, New York in 1962. Jeanette Newman, ...

(born 1962), psychiatrist * Nahid Afrin (born 2001), Indian playback singer * Narin Afrin (born c. 1974), militant {{disambiguation, geo, surname, given name