Talk:Erbil Governorate

Latest comment: 8 years ago by BaranKurd in topic Population

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Requested move edit

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The result of the move request was: page moved per request. - GTBacchus(talk) 22:07, 25 August 2011 (UTC)Reply



Erbil GovernorateArbil Governorate – per WP:COMMONNAME


GeoNames Search is not almighty. Because Dahūk, Dūhak are not common name in English sources. But it's helpful.

According to GeoNames Search:

as first-order administrative division

Arbīl, Muḩāfaz̧at (Approved), Arbīl (Short), Muḩāfaz̧at (Generic), محافظة اربيل (Native Script), اربيل (Short), محافظة (Generic), Arbīl (Variant), Erbil (Variant), Hawler (Variant), Hewlêr (Variant), Irbīl (Variant), Irbīl, Liwā’ (Variant), Irbīl, Muḩāfaz̧at (Variant), هەولێر (Variant Native Script)

According to google books:

-- Takabeg (talk) 09:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Move discussion in progress edit

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Map of the Districts edit

Here are 2 different maps of the districts.

I removed the wrong map. Here the source for the right map the official site of the Kurdistan Statistics office: http://www.krso.net/Default.aspx?page=article&id=1143&l=1--BaranKurd (talk) 21:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Population edit

The Kurdistan Region Statistics Office published the population of Erbil Governorate in 2015.

http://rudaw.net/turkish/kurdistan/0409201511

And the area of Erbil Governorate is 14.872 km²

http://www.krso.net/Default.aspx?page=article&id=899&l=1&#krso2 --BaranKurd (talk) 14:42, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Reply