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Iraqi Kurdistan

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan is an autonomous region in . There are also Kurds in several other countries; for an overview see .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Erbil and Sulemania Governorate.

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is the capital and largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the fourth-largest city in . It is one of the oldest continually-inhabited sites of human civilization, and is also a rapidly-growing and urbanizing center for the oil industry and NGOs in the Middle East.

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is the southernmost region in Iraqi Kurdistan, with a population of about two million.

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was founded in 1784 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban, a Kurdish prince, to be the capital of his principality. Since then it has been Iraqi Kurdistan’s cultural capital and home to philosophers, poets and writers.

Destinations to Discover

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Erbil Province is in Iraqi Kurdistan. Centered around , 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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is the northernmost region of Iraqi Kurdistan, with a population of around 1,2 million.

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is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan and the capital of Governorate. It is about 718 km northeast of and 14 km from the border and it was established in 2014, splitting off from Sulaymaniyah Governorate and becoming the fourth governorate in Northern Iraq.

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is a mountain valley and temple located in the Nineveh Plains, Iraq. It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis. It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith.

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is an ethnically Assyrian town in the contested Nineveh Province of , but controlled by Iraqi Kurdistan.

Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Type: Region with 6,170,000 residents
  • Description: federal region of the Republic of Iraq
  • Also known as: “Iraqi Kurdistan region”, “KRI”, “Kurdistan Region”, “Kurdistan Region of Iraq”, “Southern Region of Kurdistan”, and “کوردستان؛ باشووری کوردستان؛ هەرێما کوردستانێ”
  • Categories: autonomous region and locality
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
36.4239° or 36° 25′ 26″ north
Longitude of center
44.3284° or 44° 19′ 42″ east
Population
6,170,000
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Wiki­data ID
Q205047
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Iraqi Kurdistan” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Rajoni Kurdistan”
  • Arabic: “إقليم كردستان العراق”
  • Arabic: “إقليم كردستان”
  • Arabic: “اقليم كردستان العراق”
  • Arabic: “اقليم كردستان في شمال العراق”
  • Arabic: “اقليم كردستان”
  • Arabic: “اقليم كوردستان في العراق”
  • Arabic: “كردستان العراقية”
  • Armenian: “Իրաքի Քուրդիստան”
  • Armenian: “Իրաքյան Քուրդիստան”
  • Arpitan: “Règ·ion Kurdistan”
  • Asturian: “curdistán iraquín”
  • Asturian: “Curdistán iraquín”
  • Asturian: “kurdistán iraquín”
  • Azerbaijani: “İraq Kürdüstanı”
  • Bashkir: “Ираҡ Курдистаны”
  • Bashkir: “Курдистан Төбәк Хөкүмәте”
  • Basque: “Irakeko Kurdistan”
  • Belarusian: “Іракскі Курдыстан”
  • Belarusian: “Ірацкі Курдыстан”
  • Belarusian: “Курдыстан”
  • Bengali: “ইরাকি কুর্দিস্তান”
  • Bosnian: “Irački Kurdistan”
  • Breton: “Kurdistan Irak”
  • Bulgarian: “Иракски Кюрдистан”
  • Catalan: “Kurdistan del Sud”
  • Catalan: “Kurdistan Iraquià”
  • Catalan: “Regió Autònoma Kurda”
  • Cebuano: “Kurdistān”
  • Central Bikol: “Rona nin Iraking Kurdistan”
  • Central Kurdish: “باشووری کوردستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوردستانی عێراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “هەرێمی كوردستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “هەرێمی کوردستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی باشووری کوردستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی کوردستان”
  • Chechen: “Ӏиракъан Курдистан”
  • Chinese: “Iraq Kurdistan”
  • Chinese: “伊拉克库尔德斯坦”
  • Chinese: “库尔德斯坦地区”
  • Chinese: “庫德斯坦地區”
  • Chinese: “庫爾德斯坦地區”
  • Chinese: “庫爾德自治區”
  • Croatian: “Irački Kurdistan”
  • Czech: “Irácký Kurdistán”
  • Danish: “Irakisk Kurdistan”
  • Danish: “Iraqi Kurdistan”
  • Danish: “Kurdistan”
  • Danish: “Regionen Kurdistan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hıkumetê Kurdıstanê Iraqi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Verocê Kurdıstani”
  • Dutch: “Iraaks-Koerdistan”
  • Dutch: “Koerdische Autonome Regio”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Zuid Koerdistan”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Zuid-Koerdistan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كردستان العراق”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Regiono Kurdio”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Regiono Kurdistano”
  • Esperanto: “Iraka Kurdio”
  • Esperanto: “Iraka Kurdistano”
  • Esperanto: “Kurda aŭtonoma regiono”
  • Esperanto: “Kurdistana Regiona Registaro”
  • Estonian: “Iraagi Kurdistan”
  • Finnish: “Irakin Kurdistan”
  • Finnish: “Kurdistanin autonominen alue”
  • French: “Kurdistan irakien”
  • Galician: “Kurdistán iraquí”
  • Georgian: “ერაყის ქურთისტანი”
  • German: “Autonome Region Kurdistan”
  • German: “Kurdische Autonome Region”
  • Greek: “Ιρακινό Κουρδιστάν”
  • Greek: “Ιρακινό Κούρδισταν”
  • Hebrew: “כורדיסטן העיראקית”
  • Hindi: “इराकी कुर्दिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Dél-Kurdisztán”
  • Hungarian: “Iraki Kurdisztán”
  • Hungarian: “Kurdisztáni Autonóm Régió”
  • Hungarian: “Kurdisztáni Tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Kurdistan”
  • Interlingue: “Autonom Region Kurdistan”
  • Irish: “an Chordastáin”
  • Italian: “Kurdistan iracheno”
  • Italian: “Regione del Kurdistan”
  • Japanese: “イラククルディスタン”
  • Japanese: “イラクのクルディスタン”
  • Japanese: “イラク領クルディスタン”
  • Japanese: “クルディスタン地域”
  • Japanese: “クルディスタン自治区”
  • Japanese: “クルディスタン議長委員会”
  • Japanese: “クルド人自治区”
  • Japanese: “クルド人自治政府”
  • Japanese: “クルド自治区”
  • Japanese: “バシュル”
  • Javanese: “Kurdhistan Irak”
  • Kirghiz: “Ирак Күртстаны”
  • Kirghiz: “Түштүк Күрдстан”
  • Korean: “쿠르드 자치구”
  • Korean: “쿠르드 자치정부”
  • Korean: “쿠르드 자치주”
  • Korean: “쿠르드인 자치구”
  • Korean: “쿠르드족 자치구”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê Kurdistan”
  • Kurdish: “Başurê Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Başûrê Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Herêma Kurdistana Iraqê”
  • Kurdish: “Herêma Kurdistanê”
  • Kurdish: “Kurdistana başur”
  • Kurdish: “Kurdistana Başûr”
  • Kurdish: “Kurdistana Iraqê”
  • Kurdish: “Kurdistana Îraqê”
  • Kurdish: “باشوورێ کوردستانێ”
  • Kurdish: “ھەرێما كوردستان”
  • Latin: “Regio Curdistania”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidkurdistāna”
  • Latvian: “Kurdistānas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Irako Kurdistanas”
  • Macedonian: “Ирачки Курдистан”
  • Malay: “Kurdistan Iraq”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kurdistan Iraq”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kurdistan”
  • Malayalam: “ഇറാക്കി കുർദിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوبی کوردستون”
  • Mazanderani: “عراق کوردستون”
  • Mazanderani: “عیراق کوردستون”
  • Mazanderani: “کردستان عراق”
  • Mazanderani: “کوردستان سامون”
  • Mazanderani: “کوردستون اقلیم”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iraq Kurdistan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Autonoom Regiuun Kurdistaan”
  • Northern Luri: “کوردئسوٙ عأراق”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Irakisk Kurdistan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurdiske autonome region”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurdistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kurdistan i Irak”
  • Norwegian: “Kurdistan”
  • Pampanga: “Iraqi Kurdistan”
  • Persian: “اقلیم کردستان عراق”
  • Persian: “جنوب کردستان”
  • Persian: “حکومت کردستان عراق”
  • Persian: “دولت فدرال کردستان”
  • Persian: “کردستان جنوبی”
  • Persian: “کردستان عراق”
  • Persian: “کردستان”
  • Persian: “منطقه خودگردان کردستان”
  • Persian: “منطقه خودمختار کردستان عراق”
  • Polish: “Kurdyjski Okręg Autonomiczny”
  • Polish: “Kurdystan”
  • Polish: “Region Kurdystanu”
  • Portuguese: “Curdistão iraquiano”
  • Portuguese: “Região Autônoma do Curdistão”
  • Pushto: “عراقي کوردېستان”
  • Romanian: “Kurdistanul Irakian”
  • Russian: “Автономный регион Иракский Курдистан”
  • Russian: “Иракский Курдистан”
  • Russian: “Курдистан”
  • Russian: “Курдский автономный регион”
  • Russian: “Регион Курдистан”
  • Scots: “Iraqi Kurdistan”
  • Serbian: “Južni Kurdistan”
  • Serbian: “Ирачки Курдистан”
  • Serbian: “Јужни Курдистан”
  • Serbian: “Курдистан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Irački Kurdistan”
  • Sicilian: “Kurdistan Irachenu”
  • Slovak: “Iracký Kurdistan”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna regija Kurdistan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عراق کوردوستان ایقلیمی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عراق کوردیستانی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Kurdistan”
  • Spanish: “Kurdistán del Sur”
  • Spanish: “Kurdistan Iraqui”
  • Spanish: “Kurdistan iraquí”
  • Spanish: “Kurdistán iraqui”
  • Spanish: “Kurdistán Sur”
  • Spanish: “Region Autonoma Kurda”
  • Spanish: “Region Autónoma Kurda”
  • Spanish: “Región Autónoma Kurda”
  • Spanish: “Region de Kurdistan”
  • Spanish: “Region de Kurdistán”
  • Spanish: “Región de Kurdistan”
  • Spanish: “Región de Kurdistán”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵓⵔⴷⵉⵙⵜⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Kurdistan Irak”
  • Swedish: “Irakiska Kurdistan”
  • Swedish: “Södra Kurdistan”
  • Swiss German: “Autonome Region Kurdistan”
  • Tachelhit: “Kurdistan n lɛiraq”
  • Tagalog: “Awtonomong Rehiyon ng Kurdistan”
  • Talysh: “Iragi Kurdistan”
  • Talysh: “Kurdistan Muxtar Vilayət”
  • Tamil: “ஈராக்கிய குர்திஸ்தான் தேசிய காற்பந்து அணி”
  • Tamil: “ஈராக்கிய குர்திஸ்தான்”
  • Tatar: “Гыйрак Көрдстаны”
  • Thai: “เคอร์ดิสถานอิรัก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Autonome Region Kurdistan”
  • Turkish: “IBKY”
  • Turkish: “IKBY”
  • Turkish: “Irak Bölgesel Özerk Kürt Yönetimi”
  • Turkish: “Irak Kurdistan Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Irak Kürdistan Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Irak Kürdistan”
  • Turkish: “Irak kürdistanı bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Irak Kürdistanı”
  • Turkish: “Kürdistan Bölge Yönetimi”
  • Turkish: “Kürdistan Bölgesel Hükûmeti”
  • Turkish: “Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetimi”
  • Turkish: “Kürdistan otonom Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Kürdistan otonomus Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Kürdistan Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Kürt Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Irak Kürt Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Іракський Курдистан”
  • Urdu: “عراقی کردستان”
  • Urdu: “کردستان علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Iroq Kurdistoni”
  • Venetian: “Kurdistan Irachen”
  • Vietnamese: “Kurdistan thuộc Iraq”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Autonomo nga Rehiyon han Kurdistan”
  • Welsh: “Cyrdistan Iracaidd”
  • Western Panjabi: “کردستان علاقہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊拉克库尔德斯坦”
  • Wu Chinese: “库尔德斯坦地区”
  • Yue Chinese: “庫爾德自治區”
  • “Herêma Kurdistanê”

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