Kirkuk Province
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Kirkuk Province كركوك محافظة Kirkuk Govrenorate | |
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Province | |
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Coordinates: 35°22′N 44°8′E / 35.367°N 44.133°E | |
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Caipital | Kirkuk |
Area | |
• Total | 9679 km2 (3,737 sq mi) |
Population (2003) | |
• Total | 848,000 |
Kirkuk Province ([كركوك Karkūk] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), Kurdish: Kerkûk, Syriac: [ܟܪܟ ܣܠܘܟ Karẖa Sloẖ] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Turkis: Kerkük) is a province in northren Iraq. The province haes an aurie o 9,679 square kilometres (3,737 sq mi). In 2003 the estimatit population wis 848,000 fowk. The provincial caipital is the ceety o Kirkuk. It is dividit intae fower destricts.
Frae 1976 tae 2006, it wis namit At-Ta'mim Province which means "Naitional Province" an refers tae the naitional awnership o the regional ile an naitural gas reserves. Prior tae 1976 it haed been namit Kirkuk Province.
Provincial Govrenment
[eedit | eedit soorce]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Kirkuk-Gov.jpg/220px-Kirkuk-Gov.jpg)
- Govrenor: Najmiddin Karim [1] Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Deputy Govrenor: Rokaan Siad [2] Archived 2008-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Provincial Council Chairman (PCC): Hassan Touran [3] Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
Destricts
[eedit | eedit soorce]Destrict | Tot Population 2003 |
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Dibbis | 34,254 |
Daquq | 40,237 |
Al-Hawiga | 151,267 |
Kirkuk | 622,249 |
Demographics
[eedit | eedit soorce]1957 Census results for Kirkuk Province[1] | |||||||
Mither tounge | Kirkuk Ceety | Rest o Kirkuk Province | Tot | Percentage o tot population | |||
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Arabic | 27,127 | 82,493 | 109,620 | 28.2% | |||
Kurdish | 40,047 | 147,546 | 187,593 | 48.2% | |||
Turkis | 45,306 | 38,065 | 83,371 | 21.4% | |||
Syriac | 1,509 | 96 | 1,605 | 0.4% | |||
Ebreu | 101 | 22 | 123 | 0.03 | |||
Ither | 6,330 | 215 | 6,545 | 1.77% | |||
Tot | 120,402 | 268,437 | 388,829 | 100% |
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Anderson, Liam D.; Stansfield, Gareth R. V. (2009), Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise, University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 43, ISBN 0812241762
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Iraq Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit Reports, Maps an Assessments o Iraq's Provinces frae the UN Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit