Kurdistan

Kurdistan is a region named after the Kurdish people in the , divided between , , , and .
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  • Type: Region with 4,910,000 residents
  • Description: geographic region in the Middle East
  • Also known as: “Ardalan”, “Ardelan”, “Beth-Nahrin”, “Cyrdistan”, “Grande Curdistão”, “Great Kurdistan”, “Greater Kurdistan”, “Iraqi Kurdistan”, “Khố Nhĩ Đích Tư Đán”, “Koerdestan”, “Kordestān”, “Kurdar”, “Kurder”, “Kurdestanas”, “Kurdewarí”, “Kurdistān”, “Kūrdistān”, “Kurdistan Raya”, “Kurdistanê”, “Kurdistano”, “Kurdistanu”, “Kurds”, “Kurdstan”, “Kurdujo”, “Kurdün”, “Kurudissiteng”, “Øvre mesopotamien”, “PDK”, “Región Cultural Kurda”, “Регион Курдистан”, “כורדיסטאן”, “כורדיסתאן”, “קורדיסטן”, “دیا باکر”, “كردستان الكبرى”, “کردستون”, “کوردەواری”, “کورستانی گەورە”, “وڵاتی کوردان”, “குர்டிஸ்தான்”, “エジドハン”, “クルジスタン”, “クルディア”, “クルディスターン”, “クルド人地域”, and “库尔德斯坦国”

Kurdistan

Latitude of center
37° north
Longitude of center
44° east
Population
4,910,000
Elevation
1,840 metres (6,037 feet)
Geo­Names ID
126585
Wiki­data ID
Q41470
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kurdistan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Koerdistan”
  • Albanian: “Kurdistani”
  • Arabic: “كردستان”
  • Arabic: “مناطق سكن الأكراد”
  • Aragonese: “Kurdistán”
  • Armenian: “Քուրդիստան”
  • Asturian: “Curdistán”
  • Awadhi: “कुर्दिस्तान”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kürdüstan”
  • Bambara: “Kurdistan”
  • Bashkir: “Курдистан”
  • Basque: “Kurdistan”
  • Belarusian: “Курдыстан”
  • Bengali: “কুর্দিস্তান”
  • Breton: “Kurdistan”
  • Buginese: “ᨀᨘᨑᨘᨉᨗᨔᨗᨈᨛ”
  • Bulgarian: “Кюрдистан”
  • Catalan: “Kurdistan”
  • Cebuano: “Kurdistan”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوردستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “کورستان”
  • Chechen: “Кхурдойчоь”
  • Chinese: “库尔德斯坦”
  • Chinese: “庫德斯坦”
  • Chinese: “庫爾德斯坦”
  • Corsican: “Curdistanu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kúrdústan”
  • Croatian: “Kurdistan”
  • Czech: “Kurdistán”
  • Danish: “Kurdistan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kurdıstan”
  • Dutch: “Koerdistan”
  • Esperanto: “Kurdio”
  • Estonian: “Kurdistan”
  • Farefare: “Kurdistand”
  • Finnish: “Kurdistan”
  • French: “Kurdistan”
  • Galician: “Curdistán”
  • Galician: “Kurdistán”
  • Georgian: “ქურთისტანი”
  • German: “Kurdistan”
  • Goan Konkani: “Kurdistan”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽”
  • Greek: “Κουρδιστάν”
  • Haitian: “Kòdistan”
  • Hausa: “Kurdistan”
  • Hawaiian: “Kuludiskana”
  • Hawaiian: “Tulidiana”
  • Hebrew: “כורדיסטן”
  • Hindi: “क़ुर्दिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Kurdisztán”
  • Icelandic: “Kúrdistan”
  • Ido: “Kurdistan”
  • Igbo: “Kurdistan”
  • Iloko: “Kurdistan”
  • Indonesian: “Kurdistan”
  • Interlingua: “Kurdistan”
  • Irish: “An Chordastáin”
  • Italian: “Kurdistan”
  • Japanese: “クルディスタン”
  • Javanese: “Kurdhistan”
  • Kabyle: “Kurdistan”
  • Kazakh: “Күрдістан”
  • Khmer: “ឃឺដីស្ថាន”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kurdistan”
  • Kirghiz: “Курдистан”
  • Kölsch: “Kurdistan”
  • Korean: “쿠르디스탄”
  • Kurdish: “Kurdistan”
  • Kurdish: “كوردستان”
  • Lao: “ເຄີດິສຖານ”
  • Latin: “Curdistania”
  • Latvian: “Kurdistāna”
  • Ligurian: “Kurdistan”
  • Lingala: “Kurdistan”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Curdistan”
  • Lithuanian: “Kurdistanas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kurdistan”
  • Macedonian: “Курдистан”
  • Malagasy: “Kordistàna”
  • Malay: “Kurdistan”
  • Maltese: “Kurdistan”
  • Maori: “Kurutānga”
  • Marathi: “कुर्दिस्तान”
  • Mazanderani: “کوردستون”
  • Mingrelian: “ქურთისტანი”
  • Mossi: “Kurdistãn”
  • Nepali: “कुर्दस्तान”
  • Nepali: “कुर्दिस्तान”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurdistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kurdistan”
  • Norwegian: “Kurdistan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Curdistan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܘܪܕܣܬܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mære Curdistān”
  • Oromo: “Kurdistan”
  • Ossetian: “Курдистан”
  • Pampanga: “Kurdistan”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਰਦਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Kurdistan”
  • Persian: “اَردَلَن”
  • Persian: “اَردِلَن”
  • Persian: “كُردِستان”
  • Persian: “کردستان”
  • Polish: “Kurdystan”
  • Portuguese: “Curdistão”
  • Pushto: “کوردستان”
  • Quechua: “Kurthisuyu”
  • Quechua: “Kurthusuyu”
  • Romanian: “Kurdistan”
  • Russian: “Курдистан”
  • Samoan: “Kutatana”
  • Sardinian: “Kurdistan”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kurdistan”
  • Scots: “Kurdistan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cùrdastan”
  • Serbian: “Курдистан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kurdistan”
  • Sicilian: “Kurdistan”
  • Slovak: “Kurdistan”
  • Slovenian: “Kurdistan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوردوستان”
  • Spanish: “Kurdistán”
  • Sundanese: “Kurdistan”
  • Swedish: “Kurdistan”
  • Tachelhit: “Kurdistan”
  • Tajik: “Курдистон”
  • Talysh: “Kurdistan”
  • Tamil: “குர்திசுத்தான்”
  • Tamil: “குர்திஸ்தான்”
  • Tatar: “Көрдстан”
  • Telugu: “కుర్దిస్తాన్”
  • Thai: “เคอร์ดิสถาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཀུར་དི་སི་ཐན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኩርዲስታን”
  • Turkish: “Kürdistan”
  • Turkmen: “Kürdüstan”
  • Uighur: “كۇردىستان”
  • Ukrainian: “Курдистан”
  • Urdu: “کردستان”
  • Uzbek: “Kurdiston”
  • Venetian: “Kurdistan”
  • Vietnamese: “Kurdistan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kurdistan”
  • Welsh: “Cwrdistan”
  • Western Frisian: “Koerdistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “کردستان”
  • Wu Chinese: “库尔德斯坦”
  • Xhosa: “IKurdistan”
  • Yiddish: “קורדיסטאן”
  • Yoruba: “Kurdistan”
  • Yue Chinese: “庫爾德斯坦”
  • Zulu: “IKurdistan”
  • “ma Kuli”

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