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Noun: Kirkuk  kir'kook
  1. A city in northeastern Iraq; the centre of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean

Type of: city, metropolis, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Al-Iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic of Iraq

Encyclopedia: Kirkuk, Southern Kurdistan