Iraqi Kurdistan
Dohuk Governorate
Duhok District

Dahuk

Dahuk is the capital of Duhok Governorate in , it is a Kurdish city with a population of approximately 250,000 inhabitants, consisting mostly of Kurds and Assyrians. The city is encircled by mountains along the Tigris River.
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  • Type: City with 227,000 residents
  • Description: City in Kurdistan Region, Iraq
  • Also known as: “Dahūk, Dihōk, Dohuk, Duhok, Dûhok, Duhuk, دَهُکْ, دهوک, دھۆک, Dahuk”, “Dihok”, “Dihōk”, “Dihūk”, “Dohuk”, “Duhok”, “Dûhok”, “Duhuk”, “Nohadra”, “دووهۆک”, and “نوهَدرا”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Duhok Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: jan Sefti, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a multi-use in Dohuk, , . It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Duhok SC which plays in the Iraqi Premier League. The has a capacity of 22,800.

Dahuk

Latitude
36.8543° or 36° 51′ 15″ north
Longitude
42.9925° or 42° 59′ 33″ east
Population
227,000
Elevation
510 metres (1,673 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ DOK
Open location code
8H84VX3R+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 99474380
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
96994
Wiki­data ID
Q152831
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Dahuk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دَهُکْ”
  • Arabic: “دهوك”
  • Armenian: “Դուհոկ”
  • Asturian: “Duhok”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəhük”
  • Basque: “Dahuk”
  • Belarusian: “Дахук”
  • Bengali: “দোহুক”
  • Bulgarian: “Дахук”
  • Catalan: “Duhok”
  • Cebuano: “Dihok”
  • Central Kurdish: “دهۆك”
  • Central Kurdish: “دهۆک”
  • Central Kurdish: “دھۆک”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری دھۆک”
  • Chinese: “达霍克”
  • Chinese: “達霍克”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܣܘܪܝܝܐ”
  • Croatian: “Dahuk”
  • Czech: “Dahúk”
  • Danish: “Dahuk”
  • Danish: “Dohuk”
  • Danish: “Duhok”
  • Dutch: “Duhok”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دهوك”
  • Esperanto: “Dahuk”
  • Esperanto: “Dihok”
  • Estonian: “Dahūk”
  • Finnish: “Dahuk”
  • Finnish: “Dihok”
  • French: “Dahouk”
  • French: “Dahuk”
  • French: “Dohuk”
  • French: “Duhok”
  • Georgian: “დაჰუკი”
  • German: “Dahuk”
  • German: “Dihok”
  • German: “Dohuk”
  • German: “Duhok”
  • Greek: “Νταχούκ”
  • Greek: “Ντοχούκ”
  • Gujarati: “દોહુક”
  • Hebrew: “דהוכ”
  • Hebrew: “דהוק”
  • Hindi: “दुहोक”
  • Hindi: “दोहुक”
  • Hungarian: “Dahúk”
  • Indonesian: “Dahuk”
  • Indonesian: “Duhok”
  • Irish: “Duhok”
  • Italian: “Dihok”
  • Italian: “Dohuk”
  • Italian: “Duhok”
  • Japanese: “ダフーク”
  • Japanese: “ドホーク”
  • Kannada: “ದೋಹುಕ್”
  • Kölsch: “Dohuk”
  • Korean: “다후크”
  • Kurdish: “Dihok”
  • Kurdish: “Duhok”
  • Kurdish: “دهۆک”
  • Latvian: “Dahuka”
  • Lishanid Noshan: “דוהוך”
  • Lithuanian: “Dahukas”
  • Lithuanian: “Dochukas”
  • Malay: “Dahuk”
  • Marathi: “दोहुक”
  • Mazanderani: “دهوک”
  • Mingrelian: “დაჰუკი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dahuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dahuker”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dihuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Duhok”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dohuk”
  • Norwegian: “Dahuk”
  • Norwegian: “Duhok”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܗܘܟ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܘܗܕܪܐ”
  • Persian: “دهوک”
  • Polish: “Dahuk”
  • Polish: “Duhok”
  • Portuguese: “Dohuk”
  • Romanian: “Dahuk”
  • Romanian: “Dihok”
  • Russian: “Дахук”
  • Russian: “Дохук”
  • Scots: “Dohuk”
  • Serbian: “Дахук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dohuk”
  • Sinhala: “ඩොහුක්”
  • Slovenian: “Dahuk”
  • Slovenian: “Dihok”
  • Slovenian: “Duhok”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دهوک”
  • Spanish: “Dahuk”
  • Spanish: “Duhok”
  • Spanish: “Nohadra”
  • Spanish: “Nohadrā”
  • Spanish: “Nōhidrāh”
  • Swedish: “Dahuk”
  • Swedish: “Dihok”
  • Swedish: “Dohuk”
  • Swedish: “Duhok”
  • Swedish: “Nuhadra”
  • Tamil: “டொஹுக்”
  • Tatar: “Дәһук”
  • Telugu: “దొహుక్”
  • Thai: “ดะฮูก”
  • Turkish: “Duhok”
  • Ukrainian: “Дахук”
  • Urdu: “دھوک”
  • Urdu: “دہوک”
  • Uzbek: “Duhok”
  • Venetian: “Dahuk”
  • Vietnamese: “Dohuk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Duhok”
  • Western Panjabi: “دهوك”
  • Western Panjabi: “دہوک”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Dahuk”. Photo: Leviclancy, CC BY-SA 4.0.