Zakho City AboutZakho, Iraq City Zakho (Kurdish: Zaxo, زاخو; Arabic: زاخو, Zāḫū; Syriac-Aramaic: ܙܟܼܘ) is a district and a town in Iraqi Kurdistan located a few kilometers from the Iraqi-Turkish border in the Dohuk Governorate. The city with 350,000 inhabitants is in the autonomous Kurdistan Region. It may have originally begun on a small island in the Little Khabur which flows through the city. The Khabur River flows west of Zakho to form the border between Iraq and Turkey and flows into the Tigris. The most important rivers in the district of Zakho are the Zeriza river, the Seerkotik river and the Little Khabur river.
In July, 2010 Zaxo became the seat of the University of Zakho. The university is one of the 11 public universities the Kurdistan Region has.