Zakho

Zakho is a border town in . When traveling from into Iraq by car this is the main border crossing.
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  • Type: Town with 197,000 residents
  • Description: city and center of the Zakho District in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Also known as: Zākhaw” and “Zaxo

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zakho International Stadium.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Zakho, , . It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Zakho FC which plays in the Iraqi Premier League.

Zakho

Latitude
37.1434° or 37° 8′ 36″ north
Longitude
42.6823° or 42° 40′ 56″ east
Population
197,000
Elevation
439 metres (1,440 feet)
Open location code
8H944MVJ+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 213402531
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
89570
Wiki­data ID
Q167800
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yiddish—“Zakho” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Zaho
  • Arabic: Zākhū
  • Arabic: زاخو
  • Arabic: سوكوه
  • Armenian: Զախո
  • Asturian: Zakho
  • Azerbaijani: Zaxo
  • Belarusian: Заху
  • Catalan: Zakho
  • Catalan: Zaxo
  • Cebuano: Zaxo
  • Central Kurdish: زاخۆ
  • Chinese: 扎胡
  • Czech: Zakú
  • Dutch: Zakho
  • Egyptian Arabic: زاخو
  • Esperanto: Zaĥo
  • Estonian: Zākhū
  • Finnish: Zakho
  • French: Zakho
  • Galician: Zaxo
  • German: Zaxo
  • Greek: Ζάχο
  • Hebrew: זאכו
  • Hungarian: Zahó
  • Italian: Zakho
  • Japanese: ザーホー
  • Kazakh: Заху
  • Korean: 자호
  • Kurdish: Zaxo
  • Kurdish: Zaxu
  • Kurdish: زاخۆ
  • Mazanderani: زاخو
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Zakho
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Zakho
  • Norwegian: Zakho
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܙܐܚܘ
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܙܟܘ
  • Persian: زاخو
  • Polish: Zachu
  • Portuguese: Zakho
  • Romanian: Zakho
  • Russian: Заху
  • Serbian: Заху
  • Spanish: Zakho
  • Swedish: Zakho
  • Swedish: Zaxo
  • Turkish: Zaho
  • Ukrainian: Заху
  • Urdu: زاخو
  • Western Panjabi: زاخو
  • Yiddish: זאכא

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Zakho”. Photo: Shexsindi77, CC BY-SA 4.0.