Halabja Governorate

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Halabja Governorate is a province in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, known for its Kurdish population, mountainous terrain, and tragic history as the site of the 1988 chemical attack.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division
governorate
attackType chemical weapons attack
borderWith Diyala Governorate
Iran
Sulaymaniyah Governorate
linked to: Sulaymaniyah
capital Halabja
climate continental Mediterranean climate
conflictContext Iran–Iraq War
containsCity Halabja
containsTown Byara
Hawraman
linked to: Hawraman region

Khurmal
Sirwan
country Iraq
dateOfNotableEvent 1988-03-16
governingBody Kurdistan Regional Government
hasDeFactoOfficialLanguage Sorani Kurdish
hasDistrict Byara District
Halabja District
linked to: Halabja Governorate

Hawraman District
linked to: Hawraman region

Sirwan District
hasHumanDevelopmentIssue landmine contamination
post-conflict reconstruction
hasMajorEthnicGroup Kurds
hasMinorityGroup Arabs
Armenians
Assyrians
Turkmen
linked to: Turkmens
hasOfficialLanguage Kurdish
historicalEventSite Halabja chemical attack
knownFor memorials to chemical attack victims
mountain landscapes
pomegranate cultivation
locatedIn Iraqi Kurdistan
linked to: Kurdistan
locatedInRegion Middle East
locatedInTimeZone Arabia Standard Time
locatedOnContinent Asia
memorial Halabja Monument
mountainRange Zagros Mountains
notableFor Kurdish nationalist history
partOf Kurdistan Region
linked to: Kurdistan
perpetratorOfAttack Ba'athist Iraq
religionMajority Sunni Islam
securityStatus relatively more stable than central Iraq
subdivisionOf Iraq
terrainFeature mountainous
utcOffset +3

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Hawrami dialect region Halabja Governorate
Kurdistan Regional Government governsTerritory Halabja Governorate
Halabja partOf Halabja Governorate
Halabja regionCapitalOf Halabja Governorate
Central Kurdish spokenInRegion Halabja Governorate
subject linked to: Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Awrami associatedWithGovernorate Halabja Governorate
Hewraman administrativeRegion Halabja Governorate (Iraq)
linked to: Halabja Governorate
Halabja Governorate hasDistrict Halabja District
linked to: Halabja Governorate