Zakho
Zakho is a border town in Iraq. When traveling from Turkey into Iraq by car this is the main border crossing.
- Type: Town with 197,000 residents
- Description: city and center of the Zakho District in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Also known as: “Zākhaw”, “Zaxo”, and “سوكوه”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Zakho International Stadium.
Zakho International Stadium
Stadium
Zakho
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Zakho, Dohuk Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yiddish—“Zakho” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Zaho”
- Arabic: “Zākhū”
- Arabic: “زاخو”
- 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”
- Turkish: “Zaho”
- Ukrainian: “Заху”
- Urdu: “زاخو”
- Western Panjabi: “زاخو”
- Yiddish: “זאכא”
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Places to explore: Saladin Neighborhood and Taxê Aştî.
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