Kurdistan generally comprises the following four regions: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan).

Jan 16, 2025 · Kurdistan, broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. It consists of an extensive plateau and mountain area, spread over large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and western Iran and smaller parts of …

Kurdistan Region (KRI) [c] is a semi-autonomous federal region [d] of the Republic of Iraq. [13] [14] It comprises four Kurdish-majority governorates of Arab-majority Iraq: Erbil Governorate, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Duhok Governorate, and Halabja Governorate.

Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistān, lit. 'Land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] (listen)), [3] or Greater Kurdistan, [4][5] is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in the Middle East where the Kurds inhabit [6] and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. [7]

Oct 15, 2019 · Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but...

Jan 31, 2025 · Kurd, any member of an ethnic and linguistic group concentrated in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, portions of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and western Armenia, and other, adjacent areas.

2 days ago · In the 1980s, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, who led the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), also emerged as a major figure in the Kurdish struggle for autonomy. Ghassemlou advocated for ...

Aug 16, 2019 · Nestled on the margins of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, Kurdistan is one of the planet’s most volatile regions, and its people are the world’s largest stateless group. The Kurds are indigenous...

The Kurdistan region of Iraq is an autonomous region in northern Iraq. It borders Iran in the east, Turkey in the north, and Syria in the west. The region encompasses most of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is the southern part of the greater geographical region of Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region in federal Iraq. It borders Syria to the west, Iran to the east, and Turkey to the north, where fertile plains meet the Zagros mountains, and is traversed by the Tigris, Big Zab, and Little Zab as the main rivers. Languages: mainly Kurdish; Turkmani, Arabic, Armenian, and Assyrian in some areas.