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___MASK65___ , officially called the Kurdistan Region by the Iraqi constitution , is located in the north of ___MASK29___ and constitutes the country ' s only autonomous region . It is frequently referred to as Southern Kurdistan , as Kurds generally consider it to be one of the four parts of Kurdistan , which also includes parts of southeastern Turkey ( Northern Kurdistan ), northern Syria ( Rojava or Western Kurdistan ), and northwestern Iran ( Eastern Kurdistan ). The Hewlett - Packard Company ( commonly referred to as HP ) or shortened to Hewlett - Packard was an ___MASK14___ multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto , California . It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers , small - and medium - sized businesses ( SMBs ) and large enterprises , including customers in the government , health and education sectors . ___MASK29___ (, or ; '; '), officially known as the Republic of ___MASK29___ ('; ') is a country in Western Asia , bordered by Turkey to the north , Iran to the east , Kuwait to the southeast , Saudi Arabia to the south , Jordan to the southwest , and Syria to the west . The capital , and largest city , is Baghdad . The main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds ; others include Assyrians , Turkmen , Shabakis , Yazidis , Armenians , Mandeans , Circassians , and Kawliya . Around 95 % of the country ' s 36 million citizens are Muslims , with Christianity , Yarsan , Yezidism , and Mandeanism also present . The official languages of ___MASK29___ are Arabic and Kurdish . Assyrian Neo - Aramaic , or Assyrian , is a Northeastern Neo - Aramaic language spoken by an estimated 200 , 000 people throughout a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern ___MASK9___ , to the Nineveh plains , and the Irbil , Mosul , Kirkuk and Duhok regions in northern ___MASK29___ , together with the Al Hasakah region of northeastern Syria , and formerly parts of southeastern Turkey . In recent years , Assyrian Neo - Aramaic has spread throughout the Assyrian diaspora . Assyrian is a moderately inflected , fusional language with a two - gender noun system . It is also a null - subject language and it features a pronoun drop to some degree . The word order of modern Assyrian is predominately SVO ( subject  verb  object ), although other sentence structures are commonly used too . There is some Akkadian vocabulary and influence in the language . Assyrian Neo - Aramaic is written from right to left , and it uses the " Madnhy " version of the Syriac alphabet . Nimrud Baito ( born 1952 in Dohuk ) was the Minister of Tourism in the Kurdistan Regional Government cabinet from 2006 - 2009 . An ethnic Assyrian , Nimrud belongs to the Assyrian Patriotic Party . Trained as an electrical engineer , Baito worked in information technology at Hewlett - Packard for 10 years . The Assyrian Patriotic Party ( Assyrian Neo - Aramaic :    , commonly known as Atranaya ) is a political party in ___MASK29___ representing Assyrians that has been led by Emanuel Khoshaba Youkhana , since the 4th APP conference in Duhok in 2011 . The Kurdistan Regional Government ( KRG ) (" Hikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan " " ukmat Iqlm Kurdistn ") is the official ruling body of the predominantly Kurdish region of Northern ___MASK29___ referred to as Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan .