Kurdistan

Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistan/كوردستان, literally meaning "the land of Kurds"; Ancient: Corduene, old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia or Kurdiya, also Kurdish: Kurdewarî) is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds.

As a traditional ethnographic region, Kurdistan is generally held to include the contiguous regions in northern and northeastern Mesopotamia with large Kurdish populations. From a political standpoint, Iraqi Kurdistan is the only region which has gained official recognition internationally as a federal entity.