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Maps and layers

The network on a live OpenStreetMap globe, with open-data layers for the home region. Each outside layer comes from a registered source and is drawn only after the owner approves it.

City pages
85
Layers
10
Sources approved
2
Home countries
4
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.

Outside sources keep their own licences. A listing or a link is not an endorsement.

How this page handles evidence

Every figure carries its measure, year, source and label. Unknown is shown as unknown.

Verified
A label: the item matches its primary record, such as the official table or the Crossref entry.
Secondary source
A label: the figure comes from a reliable report about the source, not from the source itself.
To verify
A label: the item is listed as found and still needs checking against its source.

Sources

Open scholarly records on this subject, from approved indexes. Listed for reference, not yet reviewed.

  1. Fırat Bozçali (2025). Map of Greater Kurdistan Geography. Stanford University Press eBooks. DOI 10.1515/9781503644502-005
  2. Shakir A. Zebari, Sawer Ahmed, Ibrahim Naqid et al. (2025). “Distribution, genetic polymorphism and genotype prediction of rhesus blood group antigens among the Kurdish population of Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq”. openRxiv. DOI 10.1101/2025.11.20.25340675
  3. Evaluating The Use of Maps in Social Sciences / Geography Books in The Kurdistan Region / Iraq (2023). Qalaai Zanist Scientific Journal. DOI 10.25212/lfu.qzj.8.1.26
  4. Zahra Ghobadian (2014). Distribution of ABO and Rh blood groups in a major ethnic group of the West Iran, the Kurdish population. Asian Journal of Medical Sciences. DOI 10.3126/ajms.v5i3.9151
  5. Unknown Author (2025). The Sixth Parliamentary Election of Kurdistan: Results and Implications (A Study in Political Geography). Journal of Raparin University. DOI 10.26750/yc5nk635

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01The network and its layers

Turn layers on and off in the panel. Switch between the globe and the flat map. City points open their pages.

The map needs JavaScript. The layers it shows are listed beside it.

Layers

  • Cells of the H3 grid at resolution 2, shaded by how many city pages they hold. A count of pages, not of people.

  • Earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above over the past 30 days, in a box drawn around the homeland across four states.

  • First-level provinces of Türkiye, Iraq, Syria and Iran, each with its source licence.

  • Awaiting licence review

    GHSL urban centres, shown as background for the city pages.

  • Awaiting licence review

    Gridded population density of the four homeland states, for context only. It is never a count of Kurds.

Places on this map (85)

Map: OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Places: the platform’s own pages.

02Latest items

Each approved layer lists its latest items here too, for every reader.

Recent earthquakes
DatePlaceMagnitude
2026-10-0421 km ESE of Feke, TurkeyM5
2026-10-0422 km E of Feke, TurkeyM4.7
2026-10-0421 km SSE of Saimbeyli, TurkeyM4.7
2026-09-2420 km SW of Hilvan, TurkeyM5.1
Provinces
CountryUnitsLicence
TUR81 provincesCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
IRQ18 provincesCC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
SYR14 provincesCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
IRN32 provincesOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0

03The layer register

LayerSourceLicenceStatus
Recent earthquakesUSGS earthquake catalogue (FDSN event service)Public domain (U.S. Government work); credit requestedShown
Current disastersReliefWeb disasters APIMetadata reusable with credit; each linked report under its own source’s terms (to verify)Awaiting licence review
ProvincesgeoBoundaries open administrative boundaries (gbOpen)Per country, from the geoBoundaries record: Iran ODbL 1.0 (OpenStreetMap, share-alike), Türkiye CC BY-SA 2.0 (OpenStreetMap), Iraq CC0 1.0, Syria CC BY 3.0 IGO (UN OCHA). Share-alike terms need reviewShown
Urban centresGHSL Urban Centre DatabaseCC BY 4.0 (European Commission, Joint Research Centre), to verify for the release usedAwaiting licence review
Population densityWorldPop gridded populationCC BY 4.0Awaiting licence review

04How a source reaches a map

Process

From source to published figure

How a number reaches a page, keeping its measure, year, source and label.

7 steps

ResearchSources registerOwnerPagesreopen01 · StartSource found02 · RecordRegistered03 · GateSource approved04 · RecordFigure recorded05 · GateVerification06 · OutcomeShown with its label07 · StepCorrection

Run log

  1. 01 · Research

    Source found

    A statistics office, an international body or a study that counts the community.

  2. 02 · Sources register

    Registered

    The source is entered with its licence, attribution and use.

    Record
    Status: legal review required

  3. 03 · Owner

    Source approved

    The owner approves the source in the register.

    Rule
    Only the owner sets APPROVED, with a register record.

  4. 04 · Research

    Figure recorded

    Value, measure, year, source and label: verified, secondary or to verify.

  5. 05 · Research

    Verification

    Checked against the source; open items go to the verification queue.

  6. 06 · Pages

    Shown with its label

    Every figure appears with its measure and source.

    Rule
    Never added up across different measures. Unknown is shown as unknown.

  7. 07 · Research

    Correction

    A reported error reopens the figure; the change is recorded.

The platform’s rules for figures and outside data.

Cite this page
APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Maps and layers. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/research/maps/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Maps and Layers.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/research/maps/.

BibTeX
@misc{kco2026_research_maps,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Maps and layers},
	url = {https://kurds.global/research/maps/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/research/maps/},
}

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AU  - The Kurdish Cooperation Organization
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ID  - kco2026_research_map
N1  - Licence: CC BY 4.0
TI  - Maps and layers
UR  - https://kurds.global/research/maps/
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05Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Map of Greater Kurdistan Geography

    Fırat Bozçali · 2025 · Stanford University Press eBooks

    ChapterOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIRE

  2. “Distribution, genetic polymorphism and genotype prediction of rhesus blood group antigens among the Kurdish population of Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq”

    Shakir A. Zebari, Sawer Ahmed, Ibrahim Naqid et al. · 2025 · openRxiv

    PreprintCrossrefEurope PMCDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. Evaluating The Use of Maps in Social Sciences / Geography Books in The Kurdistan Region / Iraq

    2023 · Qalaai Zanist Scientific Journal

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  4. Distribution of ABO and Rh blood groups in a major ethnic group of the West Iran, the Kurdish population

    Zahra Ghobadian · 2014 · Asian Journal of Medical Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  5. The Sixth Parliamentary Election of Kurdistan: Results and Implications (A Study in Political Geography)

    Unknown Author · 2025 · Journal of Raparin University

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  6. The Political Geography of Kurdistan

    Carl T. Dahlman · 2002 · Eurasian Geography and Economics

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossref

  7. 20. ON THE LEGAL STATUS OF YEZIDIS: LAW, GEOGRAPHY AND CONFESSION-BUILDING IN EARLY MODERN KURDISTAN (SIXTEENTHEIGHTEENTH CENTURIES)

    Yavuz Aykan · 2022 · Gorgias Press

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  8. Pronominal Clitics Across Kurdish: Areal Distribution, Structural Variation, and Diachrony

    Ergin Öpengin, Masoud Mohammadirad · 2022 · Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish

    ChapterCrossref

  9. Territorial bounds to virtual space: transnational online and offline networks of Iranian and Turkish–Kurdish immigrants in the Netherlands

    MATTHIJS VAN DEN BOS, LIZA NELL · 2006 · Global Networks

    ArticleCrossref

  10. Distribution of HBB Gene Mutations in the Kurdish Population of Ilam Province, West Iran

    Keivan Moradi, Mozaffar Aznab, Susan Tahmasebi et al. · 2020 · Hemoglobin

    ArticleCrossref

  11. Kurds in the Geography of the Safavid State (1501-1722)

    Khalil Ali Murad, Niamat Shahab Haji · 2022 · Twejer

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  12. Legal Obstacles to Water Harvesting in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Their Legislative Treatment: A Legal Geography Study

    2025 · Twejer

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.

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