NW Iraq
Kirkuk Governorate
Kirkuk District

Kirkuk

Kirkuk is a city in . However, its population is ethnically mixed, and it is under the control of the Iraqi government.
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  • Type: City with 851,000 residents
  • Description: city in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Karkh Slukh”, “Karkuk”, “Karkūk”, “Kerkouk”, and “Kerkûk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Synagogue and shrine Prophet Daniel.

Synagogue
The Mosque of Prophet Daniel is a and mausoleum that is part of the Kirkuk Citadel territory, located in Kirkuk, . The mosque contains a shrine, in which local tradition affirms that Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are buried in.

Kirkuk

Latitude
35.4719° or 35° 28′ 19″ north
Longitude
44.3954° or 44° 23′ 43″ east
Population
851,000
Elevation
346 metres (1,135 feet)
IATA airport code
KIK
United Nations Location Code
IQ KIK
Open location code
8H76F9CW+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248436981
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
94787
Wiki­data ID
Q173310
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kirkuk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kirkoek”
  • Albanian: “Kirkuk”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κόρκυρα”
  • Arabic: “كركوك”
  • Armenian: “Կիրկուկ”
  • Armenian: “Քիրքուք”
  • Asturian: “Kirkuk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kərkük şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kərkük”
  • Basque: “Kerkûk”
  • Basque: “Kirkuk”
  • Belarusian: “Кіркук”
  • Bengali: “কিরকুক”
  • Bulgarian: “Киркук”
  • Catalan: “Kerkuk”
  • Catalan: “Kerkük”
  • Catalan: “Kirkuk”
  • Cebuano: “Kirkuk”
  • Central Kurdish: “كەركوك”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەرکوک”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەرکووک”
  • Chinese: “基卻”
  • Chinese: “基尔库克”
  • Chinese: “基爾庫克”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܟܪܟܘܟ”
  • Croatian: “Kirkuk”
  • Czech: “Kirkúk”
  • Danish: “Kirkuk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kerkûk”
  • Dutch: “Kirkoek”
  • Dutch: “Kirkuk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كركوك”
  • Esperanto: “Kirkuk”
  • Esperanto: “Kirkuko”
  • Estonian: “Kirkuk”
  • Estonian: “Kirkūk”
  • Finnish: “Kirkuk”
  • Finnish: “Kirkūk”
  • French: “Kirkouk”
  • French: “Kirkuk”
  • Georgian: “კირკუკი”
  • Georgian: “ქირქუქი”
  • German: “Kerkuk”
  • German: “Kerkûk”
  • German: “Kirkuk”
  • Greek: “Κιρκούκ”
  • Gujarati: “કિર્કુક”
  • Hebrew: “כירכוכ”
  • Hebrew: “כרכוכ”
  • Hebrew: “קירקוק”
  • Hindi: “किरकुक”
  • Hungarian: “Kirkuk”
  • Ido: “Kirkuk”
  • Indonesian: “Kirkuk”
  • Interlingua: “Kirkuk”
  • Interlingue: “Kirkuk”
  • Irish: “Kirkuk”
  • Italian: “Kirkuk”
  • Japanese: “キルクーク”
  • Javanese: “Kirkuk”
  • Kabyle: “Kirkuk”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kirkuk”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿರ್ಕುಕ್”
  • Kashmiri: “کرکوک”
  • Kazakh: “Kïrkwk”
  • Kazakh: “Киркук”
  • Kazakh: “كىيركۋك”
  • Kirghiz: “Киркук”
  • Korean: “키르쿠크”
  • Kurdish: “Kerkuk”
  • Kurdish: “Kerkûk”
  • Kurdish: “کەرکووک”
  • Latvian: “Kirkūka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kirkukas”
  • Low German: “Karkuk”
  • Low German: “Kerkuk”
  • Low German: “Kerkûk”
  • Low German: “Kirkuk”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Karkuk”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Kerkuk”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Kerkûk”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Kirkuk”
  • Malay: “Kirkuk”
  • Malayalam: “കിർകുക്ക്”
  • Maori: “Kirkuk”
  • Marathi: “किर्कुक”
  • Mazanderani: “کرکوک”
  • Mingrelian: “ქირქუქი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerkuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkuk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirkuk”
  • Norwegian: “Kirkuk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kirkuk”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܪܟ ܣܠܘܟ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܪܟܘܟ”
  • Ossetian: “Киркук”
  • Persian: “کرکوک”
  • Polish: “Kirkuk”
  • Portuguese: “Kirkuk”
  • Portuguese: “Quircuque”
  • Romanian: “Kirkuk”
  • Russian: “Киркук”
  • Scots: “Kirkuk”
  • Serbian: “Kirkuk”
  • Serbian: “Киркук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kirkuk”
  • Sicilian: “Kirkuk”
  • Sinhala: “කර්කුක්”
  • Slovak: “Karkúk”
  • Slovak: “Kerkúk”
  • Slovak: “Kirkúk”
  • Slovenian: “Kirkuk”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کرکوک”
  • Spanish: “Kirku k”
  • Spanish: “Kirku-k”
  • Spanish: “Kirkuk”
  • Spanish: “Kirkūk”
  • Swedish: “Arrapha”
  • Swedish: “Karkuk”
  • Swedish: “Kerkuk”
  • Swedish: “Kirkuk”
  • Tajik: “Киркук”
  • Tamil: “கிர்குக் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “கிர்குக்”
  • Tatar: “Кәркүк”
  • Telugu: “కిర్కుక్”
  • Thai: “Karkuk”
  • Thai: “Kerkuk”
  • Thai: “Kirkuk”
  • Thai: “คีร์คูก”
  • Thai: “เคอร์คูก”
  • Turkish: “Kerkuk”
  • Turkish: “Kerkük”
  • Turkish: “Kirkuk”
  • Turkmen: “Kerkük”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіркук”
  • Urdu: “کرکوک”
  • Uzbek: “Karkuk”
  • Venetian: “Kirkuk”
  • Vietnamese: “Kirkuk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kirkuk”
  • Western Armenian: “Քերքուք”
  • Western Panjabi: “کرکوک”
  • Wu Chinese: “基尔库克”
  • Yue Chinese: “基卻”
  • “التأميم”
  • “كركوك”

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