Fact sheet:   K U R D I S T A NLiterally meaning "the land of Kurds”; in ancient times Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia or Kurdiya were used to identify Kurdistan.  Kurdistan is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds.  As a traditional ethnographic region, Kurdistan is generally held to include the contiguous regions in northern and northeastern Mesopotamia with large Kurdish populations. Kurdistan extends from Caucasus to the Mediterranean Sea and from black sea to north of Persian Gulf. Today, Kurdistan is divided among five states (Parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia.)  Kurdistan or Kurdish homeland consists of about 200,000 Square miles and is roughly about the size of France or larger than California and New York combined. From a political standpoint, Iraqi Kurdistan is the only region which has gained official recognition internationally as a federal entity within Federal Iraq.