Kurds, who are we? A non-Arab Middle Eastern population that inhabits the region known as Kurdistan, a predominantly mountain area, 191,660 sq km, covering parts of Eastern Turkey, North Eastern Iraq, and North Western Iran and smaller sections of North Eastern Syria and Armenia. The region of land spans aside the Zagros and the eastern expansion of the Taurus land, it also extends in the south across the Mesopotamian plain and includes the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
In the 1990s, there were estimated to be more than 20 million Kurds. According to Wikipedia the Kurdish population is as follows:-
Turkey 10.6 to 15 million
Iran 4.8 to 6.6 million
Iraq 4 to 6 million
Syria 0.9 to 2 million
Asia / Caucasus
Afghanistan 200,000
Azerbaijan 150,000
Israel 100,000
Lebanon 80,000
Georgia 34,000 to 60,000
Kazakhstan 46,000
Armenia 45,000
Turkmenistan 40,000
Europe
Germany 500,000
France 120,000
Sweden 100,000
Netherlands 70,000
Switzerland 60,000
Austria 50,000
United Kingdom 25,000 to 80,000
Denmark 35,000 to 85,000
Greece 20,000 to 25,000
Ukraine 2,088
Americas
United States 40,000
Canada 6,000
