Kirkuk a city in Iraq

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Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk, Kurdish: Turkish: Kerkük) is a city in Iraq and the capital of Kirkuk Governorate.

It is located at 35.47°N, 44.41°E, in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, 236 kilometres (146 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad.
Kirkuk city lies 83 km south of Arbil, 149 km southeast of Mosul, 97 km west of Sulaymaniyah, and 116 km northeast Tikrit [2]

It stands on the site of the ancient Assyrian capital of Arrapha,[3] which sits near the Khasa River on the ruins of a
5,000-year-old settlement (Kirkuk Citadel). Arrapha reached great importance under the Assyrians in the 10th and 11th
centuries BC. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires—the Neo
Assyrian Empire, Babylonia, and Media—which controlled the city at various times.[4]

Historically, the city has always been considered by Kurds[5] and Turkmens[6][7] as a cultural capital. It was named the "capital
of Iraqi culture" by the ministry of culture in 2010.[8]

The city's population cosists mostly of Kurds, geographically and historicaly, but also by Turkmens, Arabs, Assyrians and Armenians.
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Kerkuk= a City in your mother's vagina! Kerkuk= KURDISTAN BUILT BY KURDS, RULED BY KURDS! everything Kurdish. Mosul is ALSO KURDISTAN. MOSUL=KURDISTAN put that in your animal Iraqi Arab brain well!