Erbil Governorate
Erbil Province is in Iraqi Kurdistan. Centered around Erbil, the capital and economic hub for autonomous region of Kurdistan Region and its province, the region has a population of 2,1 million.
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Erbil Governorate
- Type: State with 2,000,000 residents
- Description: governorate in Iraq
- Also known as: “Arbil Governorate”, “Arbil Govrenorate”, “Erbil”, “Erbil probintzia”, “Erbil Province”, “Gobernacion de Erbil”, “Governatorato di Arbil”, “Governorat arbil”, “Guvernorát Arbíl”, “Guvernoratul Arbil”, “Hawler Province”, “Hewler”, “Hewlêr (Parêzgeh)”, “Hewler Governorate”, “IQ-AR”, “Liwā’ Irbīl”, “Muḩāfaz̧at Irbīl”, “Parêzgeha Hewlêrê”, “Provincia Arbil”, “Provincia de Erbil”, “Provincia di Arbil”, “Provincie Arbíl”, “Provinz Arbil”, “Provinz Erbil”, “Provinz Hewler”, “Provinz Hewlêr”, “Κυβερνείο της Αρμπίλ”, “Вилояти Арбӣл”, “أربيل (محافظة)”, “محافظة اربيل”, “محافەزەی ھەولێر”, “ܐܪܒܠ”, “ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܐܪܒܠ”, “अरबील गवर्नरेट”, and “আর্বিল গভর্নোরেট”
- Neighbors: Dohuk Governorate and Sulemania Governorate
- Categories: governorate of Iraq and locality
- Location: Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
36.4553° or 36° 27′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
44.326° or 44° 19′ 34″ east
Population
2,000,000
Elevation
713 metres (2,339 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Erbil Governorate” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኤርቢል”
- Arabic: “أربيل”
- Arabic: “إربل”
- Arabic: “محافظة أربيل”
- Arabic: “محافظة إربل”
- Armenian: “Էրբիլ”
- Azerbaijani: “Ərbil mühafəzəsi”
- Basque: “Arbil probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Эрбіль”
- Bengali: “আর্বিল প্রদেশ”
- Bengali: “এরবিল”
- Bulgarian: “Арбил”
- Catalan: “Governació d’Erbil”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at Arbīl”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ھەولێر”
- Chavacano: “هەولێر”
- Chinese: “埃尔比勒省”
- Chinese: “埃爾比勒省”
- Classical Syriac: “ܐܪܒܝܠ”
- Croatian: “Guvernat Erbil”
- Czech: “Arbíl”
- Czech: “Guvernorát Irbíl”
- Czech: “Irbíl”
- Danish: “Arbil”
- Dutch: “Arbil”
- Dutch: “Erbil”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اربيل”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Arbil”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Arbil”
- Estonian: “Arbīli kubernerkond”
- Finnish: “Erbil”
- French: “Erbil”
- Georgian: “ერბილის მუჰაფაზა”
- German: “Arbil”
- German: “Erbil”
- German: “Gouvernement Erbil”
- German: “Gouvernement Hewler”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο της Ερμπίλ”
- Gujarati: “એર્બિલ ગવર્નોરેટ”
- Hausa: “Erbil”
- Hebrew: “ארביל”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ארביל”
- Hindi: “अरबील प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Erbíl kormányzóság”
- Hungarian: “Erbíl”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Arbil”
- Interlingua: “Governatorato de Erbil”
- Italian: “governatorato di Arbil”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Erbil”
- Japanese: “アルビール県”
- Japanese: “アルビル”
- Javanese: “Erbil”
- Kannada: “ಎರ್ಬಿಲ್ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Арбіль”
- Kirghiz: “Эрбиль”
- Korean: “아르빌주”
- Kurdish: “Hewlêr”
- Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Hewlêr”
- Kurdish: “هەولێر”
- Latvian: “Erbīlas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Erbilo gubernija”
- Macedonian: “Ербил”
- Malay: “Erbil”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Arbil”
- Marathi: “अर्बिल प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “اربیل اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Erbil Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arbil”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erbil guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Arbil”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܪܒܝܠ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܐܪܒܝܠ”
- Oromo: “Erbil”
- Panjabi: “ਅਰਬੀਲ”
- Persian: “اربیل”
- Persian: “استان اربیل”
- Polish: “Irbil”
- Portuguese: “Arbil”
- Portuguese: “Erbil”
- Pushto: “اربیل”
- Romanian: “Arbil”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Erbil”
- Russian: “Эрбиль”
- Scots: “Arbil Province”
- Serbian: “Гувернорат Ербил”
- Serbian: “Ербил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Guvernorat Erbil”
- Sinhala: “එර්බිල් පළාත”
- Slovak: “Arbíl”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Erbil”
- Somali: “Erbil”
- South Azerbaijani: “اربیل اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Erbil”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Erbil”
- Swahili: “Erbil”
- Swedish: “Arbil”
- Swedish: “Erbil”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Arbel”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Арбел”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Арбил”
- Tajik: “Эрбил”
- Tamil: “அர்பில் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “எர்பில் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Эрбил”
- Telugu: “ఎర్బిల్ గవర్నరేట్”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการอัรบีล”
- Turkish: “Erbil ili”
- Turkish: “Erbil”
- Ukrainian: “Ербіль”
- Urdu: “محافظہ اربیل”
- Uzbek: “Arbil muhofazasi”
- Uzbek: “Erbil”
- Venetian: “goernatorà de Arbil”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Erbil”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arbil (gobernador)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arbil”
- Welsh: “Arbil”
- Western Armenian: “Էրպիլ”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اربیل”
- Wu Chinese: “埃尔比勒省”
- Yue Chinese: “艾比爾省”
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