I heard about this country a few times in the news, but I can't find it in the atlas.
2006-09-09 19:05:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Kurdistan is a part of Northern Iraq. This group of people have seceded from the nation of Iraq, and declared it a country.
2006-09-09 19:09:10 · answer #1 · answered by Schona 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As a traditional ethnographic region, Kurdistan is generally held to include the contiguous regions in northern and northeastern Mesopotamia with large Kurdish populations. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, Kurdistan is a mountainous region of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, inhabited predominantly by Kurds including 27-28 million people in a 190,000 km² (74,000 sq. mi) area.
2006-09-10 02:41:52 · answer #2 · answered by briancowings 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kurdistan (literally meaning "the land of Kurds") (old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia, also in Kurdish: Kurdewarî) is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited traditionally predominantly by the Kurds.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, Kurdistan is a mountainous region of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, inhabited predominantly by Kurds.
2006-09-10 02:06:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kurdistan is an area in the middle east where the majority is ethnically Kurdish. It compraises norht Iraq, north west Iran, North East Syria and south east Turkey.
2006-09-10 02:10:52 · answer #4 · answered by Epicarus 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kurdistan (literally meaning "the land of Kurds")[1] (old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia, also in Kurdish: Kurdewarî) is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited traditionally predominantly by the Kurds.....
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2006-09-10 02:07:35 · answer #5 · answered by knewknickname 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The region is primarily in southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and in northwestern Iran.
2006-09-10 02:10:07 · answer #6 · answered by shorebreak 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does not exist...yet. It is the north of Iraq and south of Turkey area, that was remapped by Churchill. The land remains and the millions of Kurds do too.
2006-09-10 02:08:33 · answer #7 · answered by spiritualseeker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not actually a country as such, but a group of people claiming a small area of land that lies over the south-eastern border of turkey and the north-western border of iraq, and calling it 'kurdistan'.
2006-09-10 04:01:38 · answer #8 · answered by Elle 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it doesnt exit. It is a nation that the Kurdish people are trying to create in northern Iraq
2006-09-10 02:07:18 · answer #9 · answered by crazy_airforce_guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol!!! east turkey russia syria iran and iraq.
2006-09-12 14:00:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋