Akre
Akre District is a district in northern Iraq, disputed between the Iraqi Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government. The administrative center is the city of Akre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Iraq
- Description: district in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq
- Also known as: “‘Aqrah”, “‘Aqrah Qadhā’”, “Akra”, “Akre District”, “Aqrah District”, and “Qaḑā’ ‘Aqrah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akre.
Akre
Town
Photo: Ara Qadir, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akre is a city located in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is disputed by the Nineveh Governorate and the Duhok Governorate which both partially claim it. Akre is known for its celebrations of Newroz.
Akre
- Location: Nineveh, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Akre” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عقرة”
- Arabic: “عقره”
- Arabic: “قضاء عقرة”
- Cebuano: “Akre District”
- Central Kurdish: “قەزای ئاکرێ”
- Chinese: “阿克拉县”
- Chinese: “阿克拉縣”
- Dutch: “Aqrah district”
- Kurdish: “Akrê”
- Kurdish: “ئاكرێ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aqrah-distriktet”
- Persian: “شهرستان عقره”
- Swedish: “Akre”
- Swedish: “Aqrah”
- Turkish: “Akre (ilçe)”
- Turkish: “Akre”
- Uzbek: “Akre tumani”
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