Kirkuk
Worth seeing in and around Kirkuk
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 04The mosque of the prophet Daniel
Mosque built on a tomb that some believe that includes the body of the Prophet Daniel, the mosque is located within the citadel of Kirkuk
300 m · Wikipedia - 05
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Kirkuk
- Airports
- Kirkuk (KIK), 4 km · Erbil (EBL), 94 km · Baghdad / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), 246 km
- Stations
- Kirkuk international Airport, 3.5 km
- Arbil → Kirkuk87 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · $8–10
- Baghdad → Kirkuk237 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · $21–28
- Najaf → Kirkuk383 km · quickest by air, 4h · $130–200
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kirkuk
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kirkuk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Kirkuk – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kirkuk
- Kirkuk Districtdistrict in Iraq6.8 km
- Beşiir Kasabasivillage in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq9.1 km