Kirkuk Governorate

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Kirkuk Governorate or Kirkuk Province is a governorate in northern Iraq. The governorate has an area of 9,679 square kilometres (3,737 sq mi). In 2024, the population was 2,034,627 people. The provincial capital is the city of Kirkuk. It is divided into four districts. The province was named Kirkuk Governorate until 1976, when it was named At-Ta'mim Governorate, meaning "nationalization", referring to the national ownership of the regional oil and natural gas reserves. While Article 140 of the 2005 Constitution mandated the restoration of the name "Kirkuk Governorate" by 2007, the administrative transition was delayed by political disputes. The name was not fully reinstated across all federal records and identity documents until 2017.

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