Kurdistan facts for kids
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| Location | Parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia |
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| Area (Est.) | 190,000 km² - 390,000 km² 74,000 sq.mi - 151,000 sq.mi |
| Population | 25–30 Million (Est.) |
Kurdistan is a mountainous area in the Middle East, that is mainly inhabited by Kurds.
The Kurdish people is estimated to be around 35-40 million people.
In Iranian Kurdistan, the cities of Piranshahr & Mahabad are the two main cities of Mokrian district.
- Northern Kurdistan (Turkey)
- Southern Kurdistan (Iraq)
- Western Kurdistan (Syria)
- Eastern Kurdistan (Iran)
The Kurds are a people of Indo-European origin. They speak an Iranian language known as Kurdish, and are the majority of the population of the region. Most inhabitants are Muslim.
Images for kids
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Map of Jibal (mountains of northeastern Mesopotamia), highlighting "Summer and winter resorts of the Kurds", the Kurdish lands. Redrawn from Ibn Hawqal, 977 CE.
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Map from Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (1072–74), showing Arḍ al-Akrād, Arabic for "land of Kurds", located between Arḍ al-Šām (ie. Syria), and Arḍ al-ʿIrāqayn (ie. Iraq).
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Kurdistan (shaded area) as suggested by the Treaty of Sèvres
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Abdullah Öcalan pictured 1997
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Historic map from 1721 showing borders of Curdistan provinces in Persia
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The States outlined in red are two Kurdish States named Hakkiari and Mosul in this 1902 map. They are referred to as Upper Kurdistan and Lower Kurdistan respectively.
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A typical Kurdish village in Hawraman, Kurdistan
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Canyon in Rawanduz in northern Iraqi Kurdistan
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Zê river in Zebari region, Iraqi Kurdistan.
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The city of Piranshahr, center of Mokrian district, northwestern Iran
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The city of Batman, Northern Kurdistan (eastern Turkey)
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Countryside in Sulaymaniyah
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See also
In Spanish: Kurdistán para niños
