Dohuk Province
Dohuk ([دهوك Dahūk] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), Kurdish: Dihok) is ane o the 18 provinces o Iraq. It is in the north o the kintra in the autonomous region o Iraqi Kurdistan. Its caipital is the ceety o Dohuk. It an aa includes the ceety o Zakho, which haes at various times served as a checkpoint for the border wi Turkey. Prior tae 1976 it wis pairt o Ninawa Province, which wis cried Mosul Province.
Dohuk Province دهوك / Dihok Duhok Govrenorate | |
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Province | |
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Coordinates: 37°3′N 43°9′E / 37.050°N 43.150°E | |
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Caipital | Dohuk |
Area | |
• Total | 6553 km2 (2,530 sq mi) |
Population (2009) | |
• Total | 958,201 |
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Provincial Cooncil (PC)
eedit- Govrenor: Tamar Fattah Ramadhan Kuchar
- Deputy Govrenor: Gurgis Shlaymun
- Provincial Cooncil Chairman (PCC): Fadhil Omer[1]
- 41 total seats
- 33 seats for the Kurdistan Democratic Pairty (KDP)
- 4 seats for the Patriotic Union o Kurdistan (PUK)
- 4 seats for the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU)[2]
Destricts
eeditDuhok wis dividit intae fower Destricts an haes nou 7 destricts:[3]
Settlements
eeditReferences
eedit- ↑ [1]
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 20 Apryle 2005. Retrieved 30 August 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 23 Julie 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Freemit airtins
eedit- Dohuk Province (in Inglis)
- Dohuk Provincial Cooncil (in Kurdish)
- University o Dohuk
- Multi-National Force-Iraq - Duhok Archived 2008-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Iraq Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit Reports, Maps and Assessments of Iraq's Governorates from the UN Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit