Kirkuk Governorate

Kirkuk Governorate, also called Kirkuk Province, is a governorate in northern Iraq with an area of 9,679 square kilometres. Its provincial capital is the city of Kirkuk, and the governorate is divided into four districts. Its source article gives a population of 2,034,627 people in 2024. The province was named Kirkuk Governorate until 1976, when it was renamed At-Ta'mim Governorate, a name meaning nationalization that referred to national ownership of the regional oil and natural gas reserves. The 2005 constitution called for the name Kirkuk to be restored by 2007, but political disputes delayed the change, and the name was not fully reinstated across federal records and identity documents until 2017.