Zakho District ( ku, قەزای زاخۆ, Qezaya Zaxo, ar-at, قضاء زاخو, qaḍāʾ Zāḫū) is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

in northwestern

Dohuk Governorate ar, محافظة دهوك , image_skyline = Collage_of_Dohuk_Governorate.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = , image_flag = , image_seal = ...

in the

Kurdistan Region Kurdistan Region ( ku, هەرێمی کوردستان, translit=Herêmî Kurdistan; ar, إقليم كردستان), abbr. KRI, is an autonomous region in Iraq comprising the four Kurdish-majority governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok, ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. The city of

Zakho Zakho, also spelled Zaxo ( ku, زاخۆ, Zaxo, syr, ܙܵܟ݂ܘܿ, Zākhō, , ) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, at the centre of the eponymous Zakho District of the Dohuk Governorate, located a few kilometers from the Iraq–Turkey bo ...

is the

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Subdistricts

The district has many sub-districts: *Zakho *Ibrahim Khalil or Rizgari * Darkar *Hizawa *

Batifa Batifa ( ar, باطوفا, ku, باتيفا, Batîfa) is a town and sub-district in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Zakho District. Villages Geography Climate Batufa has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate ...

References

Districts of Dohuk Province Zakho {{Iraqi Kurdistan-geo-stub