Semua jumlah penduduk merupakan perkiraan oleh pihak ke-3.
Turki, Iran dan Suriah tidak melacak atau menyediakan statistik populasi.
Wong Kurdi utawi Krama Kurd inggih punika krama Iran sané magenah ring wawidangan sané jimbarnyané kirang langkung 500.000 km2, inggih punika makudang-kudang wawidangan ring Timur Tengah (utamané ring Turki, Irak, Suriah, Kaukasus miwah Israel) miwah Asia Tengah (utamannyané ring Kazakhstan miwah Turkmenistan) miwah ring Iran (utamané ring kaja-wétan miwah kauh Iran).[31][32][33][34][35][36][37] Tiosan ring punika, ring warsa-warsa sané sampun lintang, mawinan perang internal miwah asing akéh krama Kurd sané ngungsi ka Eropa, sané pinih akéh ring Jerman, Prancis, Swedia miwah Inggris.[38] Krama Kurd inggih punika jadma saking suku Arya miwah krama ring wewidangan Iran sané sampun lintang.
Makasami wewengkon Kurdistan kajaba wewidangan sané wénten ring Suriah mangkin, kantos masan Safawiyané dados pahan saking Iran sané akéhnyané wewengkon punika kaserahang ring Ottoman rikala Perang Chalderan ring warsa 1512-1520. Sasampun Kakaisaran Ottoman kasirnayang ring Perang Dunia I miwah kapuputang olih Inggris Agung ring pangawit abad ka-20, wewidangan puniki kawangun ring tiga negara Turki, Irak miwah Suriah.[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]
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Pria Kurdi di atas kuda.
Perempuan Kurdi dalam pakaian tradisional.
Potret seorang gerilyawan Kurdi menggendong putrinya di desa mereka di luar Dohuk, Irak
↑ 2,02,12,22,32,4The Kurds: culture and language rights (Kerim Yildiz, Georgina Fryer, Kurdish Human Rights Project; 2004): 18% of Turkey, 20% of Iraq, 8% of Iran, 9.6%+ of Syria; plus 1–2 million in neighboring countries and the diaspora
↑ 3,03,1Sandra Mackey , “The reckoning: Iraq and the legacy of Saddam”, W.W. Norton and Company, 2002. Excerpt from pg 350: “As much as 25% of Turkey is Kurdish.”
↑Ismet Chériff Vanly, “The Kurds in the Soviet Union”, in: Philip G. Kreyenbroek & S. Sperl (eds.), The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview (London: Routledge, 1992). pg 164: Table based on 1990 estimates: Azerbaijan (180,000), Armenia (50,000), Georgia (40,000), Kazakhstan (30,000), Kyrghizistan (20,000), Uzbekistan (10,000), Tajikistan (3,000), Turkmenistan (50,000), Siberia (35,000), Krasnodar (20,000), Other (12,000), Total 450,000
↑"Население Кыргызстана" (ring Russian). Kaarsipin saking versi asli tanggal 2012-09-15. Kaaksés 2014-05-31. Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
↑G. Asatrian, Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds, Iran and the Caucasus, Vol.13, pp.1-58, 2009: "The ancient history of the Kurds, as in case of many other Iranian ethnic groups (Baluchis, etc.), can be reconstructed but in a very tentative and abstract form"
↑Michael G. Morony, "Iraq After the Muslim Conquest", Gorgias Press LLC, 2005. pg 265: "Kurds were only small ethnic group native to Iraq.
↑E. J. van Donzel, "Islamic desk reference ", BRILL, 1994.
↑John Limbert, The Origins and Appearance of the Kurds in Pre-Islamic Iran, Iranian Studies, Vol.1, No.2, Spring 1968, pp.41-51. p.41: "In these last areas, the historic road from Baghdad to Hamadan and beyond divides the Kurds from their Iranian cousins, the Lurs."
↑RUSSELL, JR 1990 «Pre-Christian Armenian Religion*, dans Aufstieg und Nieder- gang der Romischen Welt, II, 18.4, p. 2679-2692, Berlin-New York, 1990. , pg 2691: "A study of the pre-Islamic religion of the Kurds, an Iranian people who inhabited southern parts of Armenia from ancient times to present, has yet to be written"