Talk:Erbil Governorate

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Requested move

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

Erbil Governorate → Arbil 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:


 * "Arbil Governorate" -Llc 30
 * "Erbil Governorate" -Llc 24
 * "Irbil Governorate" -Llc 9


 * "Governorate of Arbil" -Llc 8
 * "Governorate of Erbil" -Llc 7
 * "Governorate of Irbil" -Llc 5

-- Takabeg (talk) 09:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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Map of the Districts
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)

Population
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)