Is réigiún nó tír suite sa Tuirc, sa tSiria, san Iaráic agus san Iaráin í an Chordastáin (Coirdis: Kurdistan nó کوردستان), san iarthuaisceart sliabhraon Zagros agus oirthear sliabhraon Taurus.[1]
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Tá ceithre cheantar sa gCordastáin:[2][3]
- Rojava (An Chordastáin Thiar, tuaisceart na Siria),
- Bakûr (An Chordastáin Thuaidh, oirdheisceart na Tuirce),
- Başûr (An Chordastáin Theas san Iaráic), agus
- Rojhilat (An Chordastáin Thoir san Iaráin).
M. T. O'Shea, Trapped between the map and reality: geography and perceptions of Kurdistan, 258 pp., Routledge, 2004. (see p. 77)
"Kurds, Kurdistān" (2002). Encyclopaedia of Islam. BRILL. “At present, the different provinces of Kurdistān cover around 190,000 km2 in Turkey, 125,000 km2 in Iran, 65,000 km2 in Irāḳ, and 12,000 km2 in Syria. The total area of Kurdistān can then be estimated at approximately 392,000 km2.” Bengio, Ofra (2014). "Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland". University of Texas Press. “Hence the terms: rojhalat (east, Iran), bashur (south, Iraq), bakur (north, Turkey), and rojava (west, Syria).”