Kurdistan
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| Language | Kurdish |
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| Location | Upper Mesopotamia, and the Zagros Mountains, including parts of Eastern Anatolia Region (Armenian Highland) and southeastern Anatolia, northern Syria, northern Iraq, and the northwestern Iranian Plateau. |
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 Republic of Iraq Islamic Republic of Iran Republic of Turkey Syrian Arab Republic
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| Population | 28 million (2014 estimate) |
| Internet TLD | .krd |
Kurdistan (/ˌkɜːrdɪˈstæn/ or /ˌkɜːrdɪˈstɑːn/) (Kurdish: [ˌkurdɪˈstan]; "Homeland of the Kurds" or "Land of the Kurds"; also formerly spelled Curdistan; ancient name: Corduene) or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region wherein the Kurdish people form a prominent majority population, and Kurdish culture, language, and national identity have historically been based. Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges.
Contemporary use of the term refers to four parts of Kurdistan, which include southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Syria (Rojava or Western Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), and northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan). Some Kurdish nationalist organizations seek to create an independent nation state consisting of some or all of these areas with a Kurdish majority, while others campaign for greater autonomy within the existing national boundaries.
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