Kurdistan
Kurdistan is a region named after the Kurdish people in the Middle East, divided between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Region with 4,910,000 residents
- Description: geographic region in the Middle East
- Also known as: “Ardalan”, “Ardelan”, “Curdistan”, “Great Kurdistan”, “Greater Kurdistan”, “Iraqi Kurdistan”, “Kordestān”, “Kurdistān”, “Kūrdistān”, and “Kurds”
Kurdistan
- Categories: cultural region and great homeland
- Location: Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kurdistan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Koerdistan”
- Albanian: “Kurdistani”
- Arabic: “كردستان الكبرى”
- Arabic: “كردستان”
- Arabic: “كوردستان”
- Arabic: “مناطق سكن الأكراد”
- Aragonese: “Kurdistán”
- Armenian: “Քուրդիստան”
- Asturian: “Curdistán”
- Awadhi: “कुर्दिस्तान”
- Azerbaijani: “Kürdistan”
- Azerbaijani: “Kürdüstan”
- Bambara: “Kurdistan”
- Bashkir: “Курдистан”
- Basque: “Kurdistan”
- Belarusian: “Курдыстан”
- Bengali: “কুর্দিস্তান”
- Breton: “Kurdistan”
- Buginese: “Kurudissiteng”
- Buginese: “ᨀᨘᨑᨘᨉᨗᨔᨗᨈᨛ”
- Bulgarian: “Кюрдистан”
- Catalan: “Kurdistan”
- Cebuano: “Kurdistan”
- Central Kurdish: “كوردستان”
- Central Kurdish: “کوردستان”
- Central Kurdish: “کوردەواری”
- Central Kurdish: “کورستان”
- Central Kurdish: “کورستانی گەورە”
- Central Kurdish: “وڵاتی کوردان”
- Chechen: “Кхурдойчоь”
- Chinese: “库尔德斯坦”
- Chinese: “库尔德斯坦国”
- Chinese: “庫德斯坦”
- Chinese: “庫爾德斯坦”
- Corsican: “Curdistan”
- Corsican: “Curdistanu”
- Corsican: “Kurdistanu”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kúrdústan”
- Croatian: “Kurdistan”
- Czech: “Kurdistán”
- Danish: “Beth-Nahrin”
- Danish: “Kurdistan”
- Danish: “Øvre mesopotamien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kurdıstan”
- Dutch: “Koerdestan”
- Dutch: “Koerdistan”
- Esperanto: “Kurdio”
- Esperanto: “Kurdistano”
- Esperanto: “Kurdujo”
- Estonian: “Kurdistan”
- Finnish: “Kurdistan”
- French: “Kurdistan”
- Galician: “Curdistán”
- Galician: “Kurdistán”
- Georgian: “ქურთისტანი”
- German: “Kurdistan”
- German: “Süd-Kurdistan”
- Goan Konkani: “Kurdistan”
- Gothic: “𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽”
- Greek: “Κουρδιστάν”
- Haitian: “Kòdistan”
- Hausa: “Kurdistan”
- Hawaiian: “Kuludiskana”
- Hawaiian: “Tulidiana”
- Hebrew: “כורדיסטאן”
- Hebrew: “כורדיסטן”
- Hebrew: “כורדיסתאן”
- Hebrew: “קורדיסטן”
- Hindi: “कुर्दिस्तान”
- Hindi: “क़ुर्दिस्तान”
- Hungarian: “Kurdisztán”
- Icelandic: “Kúrdistan”
- Ido: “Kurdistan”
- Igbo: “Kurdistan”
- Iloko: “Kurdistan”
- Indonesian: “Kurdistan Raya”
- Indonesian: “Kurdistan”
- Interlingua: “Kurdistan”
- Irish: “An Chordastáin”
- Italian: “Curdistan”
- Italian: “Kurdistan”
- Japanese: “エジドハン”
- Japanese: “クルジスタン”
- Japanese: “クルディア”
- Japanese: “クルディスターン”
- Japanese: “クルディスタン”
- Japanese: “クルド人地域”
- Javanese: “Kurdhistan”
- Kabyle: “Kurdistan”
- Kazakh: “Күрдістан”
- Khmer: “ឃឺដីស្ថាន”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kurdistan”
- Kirghiz: “Курдистан”
- Kölsch: “Kurdistan”
- Korean: “쿠르디스탄”
- Kurdish: “Kurdistan”
- Kurdish: “Kürdistan”
- Kurdish: “Kurdistanê”
- Kurdish: “Kurdıstan”
- Kurdish: “Kurdstan”
- Kurdish: “كوردستان”
- Lao: “ເຄີດິສຖານ”
- Latin: “Curdistania”
- Latvian: “Kurdistāna”
- Ligurian: “Kurdistan”
- Lingala: “Kurdistan”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Curdistan”
- Lithuanian: “Kurdestanas”
- Lithuanian: “Kurdistanas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kurdistan”
- Macedonian: “Курдистан”
- Malagasy: “Kordistàna”
- Malay: “Kurdistan”
- Maltese: “Kurdistan”
- Maori: “Kurutānga”
- Marathi: “कुर्दिस्तान”
- Mazanderani: “Kurdün”
- Mazanderani: “کردستون”
- Mazanderani: “کوردستان”
- Mazanderani: “کوردستون”
- Mingrelian: “ქურთისტანი”
- Mossi: “Kurdistãn”
- Nepali: “कुर्दस्तान”
- Nepali: “कुर्दिस्तान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurdar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurder”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurdistan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kurdistan”
- Norwegian: “Kurdistan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Curdistan”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܘܪܕܣܬܢ”
- Oromo: “Kurdistan”
- Ossetian: “Курдистан”
- Pampanga: “Kurdistan”
- Panjabi: “ਕੁਰਦਿਸਤਾਨ”
- Papiamento: “Kurdistan”
- Persian: “اَردَلَن”
- Persian: “اَردِلَن”
- Persian: “كُردِستان”
- Persian: “کردستان”
- Persian: “کوردستان”
- Polish: “Kurdystan”
- Portuguese: “Curdistão”
- Portuguese: “Grande Curdistão”
- Pushto: “کردستان”
- Pushto: “کوردستان”
- Quechua: “Kurthisuyu”
- Quechua: “Kurthusuyu”
- Romanian: “Kurdistan”
- Russian: “Курдистан”
- Samoan: “Kutatana”
- Sardinian: “Kurdistan”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kurdistan”
- Scots: “Kurdistan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cùrdastan”
- Serbian: “Kurdewarí”
- Serbian: “Курдистан”
- Serbian: “Регион Курдистан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kurdistan”
- Sicilian: “Kurdistan”
- Slovak: “Kurdistan”
- Slovenian: “Kurdistan”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوردوستان”
- Spanish: “Curdistán”
- Spanish: “Kurdistán”
- Spanish: “Región Cultural Kurda”
- Sundanese: “Kurdistan”
- Swedish: “Kurdistan”
- Swedish: “PDK”
- Tachelhit: “Kurdistan”
- Tajik: “Курдистон”
- Talysh: “Kurdistan”
- Tamil: “குர்டிஸ்தான்”
- Tamil: “குர்திசுத்தான்”
- Tamil: “குர்திஸ்தான்”
- Tatar: “Көрдстан”
- Telugu: “కుర్దిస్తాన్”
- Thai: “เคอร์ดิสถาน”
- Tibetan: “ཀུར་དི་སི་ཐན།”
- Turkish: “Kürdistan”
- Turkmen: “Kürdüstan”
- Uighur: “كۇردىستان”
- Ukrainian: “Курдистан”
- Urdu: “کردستان”
- Uzbek: “Kurdiston”
- Venetian: “Kurdistan”
- Vietnamese: “Kurdistan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kurdistan”
- Welsh: “Cwrdistan”
- Welsh: “Cyrdistan”
- Western Frisian: “Koerdistan”
- Western Panjabi: “دیا باکر”
- Western Panjabi: “کردستان”
- Wu Chinese: “库尔德斯坦”
- Xhosa: “IKurdistan”
- Yiddish: “קורדיסטאן”
- Yoruba: “Kurdistan”
- Yue Chinese: “Kurdistanê”
- Yue Chinese: “庫爾德斯坦”
- Zulu: “IKurdistan”
- “ma Kuli”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Kurdistan”. Photo: Halmathalmat, CC BY-SA 4.0.