Kurdish people are an ethnic community belonging to which of the following countries?

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

RRC Group D Previous Paper 52 (Held On: 28 Sept 2018 Shift 3)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Iraq.

Key Points

Kurdish people are an ethnic community belonging to Iraq.
Iraqi Kurds are people born in or residing in Iraq who is of Kurdish origin.
The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Iraq, comprising between 20% and 25% of the country's population according to the CIA World Factbook.
The Kurdish people are an ethnic group whose origins are in the Middle East.
They are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world that do not have a state of their own.
This geo-cultural region means "Land of the Kurds".

Additional Information

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Jordan to the southwest, Syria to the west, Kuwait to the southeast, and Saudi Arabia to the south.
The capital and largest city is Baghdad.

Location-map-of-Iraq