Zakho
Zakho is a border town in Iraq. When traveling from Turkey into Iraq by car this is the main border crossing.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Zakho International Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Kurdistantolive, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zakho International Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Zakho FC which plays in the Iraqi Premier League.
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″ northLongitude
42.6823° or 42° 40′ 56″ eastPopulation
197,000Elevation
439 metres (1,440 feet)Open location code
8H944MVJ+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 213402531OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
89570Wikidata ID
Q167800
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Satellite Map
Discover Zakho from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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.