""""Kirkuk population according to mother
tongue based on the 1957 censuses Mother tongue""""
" Kirkuk city" / "Kirkuk Governorate " / "Total population"
Arabic ::: 27,127 / 82,493 / 109,620
Kurdish ::: 40, 047 / 147,540 / 187,593
Turkish ::: 45,306 / 38,065 / 83,371
Chaldean and Syrian :::1,509 / 96 / 1,605
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