Kirkuk Governorate (Arabic: كركوك Karkūk, Kurdish: Kerkûk, Syriac: ܟܪܟ ܣܠܘܟ Karḵ Sloḵ, Turkish: Kerkük) (or Kirkuk Province) is a province in northern Iraq. The province has an area of 9,679 square kilometres (3,737 sq mi). In 2003 the estimated population was 848,000 people. The provincial capital is the city of Kirkuk. It is divided into four districts.
From 1976 to 2006, it was named At-Ta'mim Province which means "Nationalisation Province" and refers to the national ownership of the regional oil and natural gas reserves. Prior to 1976 it had been named Kirkuk Province.
[edit] Provincial Government
Districts of Kirkuk Province
[edit] Districts
[edit] Demographics
| 1957 Census results for Kirkuk Province[1] |
| Mother tongue |
Kirkuk City |
Rest of Kirkuk Province |
Total |
Percentage of total population |
| Arabic |
27,127 |
82,493 |
109,620 |
28.2% |
| Kurdish |
40,047 |
147,546 |
187,593 |
48.2% |
| Turkish |
45,306 |
38,065 |
83,371 |
21.4% |
| Syriac |
1,509 |
96 |
1,605 |
0.4% |
| Hebrew |
101 |
22 |
123 |
0.03 |
| Other |
6,330 |
215 |
6,545 |
1.77% |
| Total |
120,402 |
268,437 |
388,829 |
100% |
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
Iraq
Kirkuk Governorate 
