Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Shinar Today?

Shinar is identified with Babylon. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs8

High confidence

Modern identification

Babylon - modern identification under review

Coordinates32.5433, 44.4222
Kindregion
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Gen 10:10Gen 11:2Gen 14:1Gen 14:9Josh 7:21Isa 11:11Dan 1:2Zech 5:11

Why this place is in the atlas

Shinar is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 8 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: af725b1, urlSlug: shinar, friendlyId: Shinar OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 32.543333, longitude: 44.422222, precision: region OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences Gen 10:10, Gen 11:2, Gen 14:1, Gen 14:9 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High