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Zakho

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Zakho in 2016
Kurdish Peshmerga rebel guarding the airport in Zakho, northern Iraq 1993

Zakho, also spelled Zaxo (Kurdish: زاخۆ, romanized: Zaxo), is a city in the Kurdistan Region. It has about 350,000 inhabitants, the vast majority of whom are ethnic Kurds. It is in the Dahuk Province. There is a university in Zaxo. The biggest soccer club is Zakho FC.