Kirkuk Province

Kirkuk Province
Kirkuk Province; كركوك محافظة; Kirkuk Govrenorate
	Province
	Coordinates: 35°22′N 44°8′E / 35.367°N 44.133°E
Kintra	Iraq
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

Govrenor: Najmiddin Karim Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
Deputy Govrenor: Rokaan Siad Archived 2008-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
Provincial Council Chairman (PCC): Hassan Touran Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine

Destricts

Destrict	Tot Population 2003
Dibbis	34,254
Daquq	40,237
Al-Hawiga	151,267
Kirkuk	622,249

Demographics

Mither tounge	Kirkuk Ceety	Rest o Kirkuk Province	Tot	Percentage o tot population
1957 Census results for Kirkuk Province^[1]
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

↑ 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

Iraq Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit Reports, Maps an Assessments o Iraq's Provinces frae the UN Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit

[1] 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

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