Mount Korek

Korek
Elevation	2,127 m (6,978 ft)

Mount Korek (Kurdish: Çîyay Korek) is a mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, 50 kilometres from Iranian border.

In 1973 President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr ordered the construction of observatory of three telescopes,^[1] though it has not been completed yet.

See also

Erbil Observatory

References

1. ^ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seeing-stars-in-iraq