Zakho (Arabic: زاخو; or Zaco) is a district and a town in Iraqi Kurdistan located a few kilometers from the Iraqi-Turkish border. Zakho is a province of the Dohuk Governorate. The city has 600,000 inhabitants. It may have originally begun on a small island in the Little Khabur which currently flows through the city. The Khabur River flows west of Zakho to form the border between Iraq and Turkey and flows into the Tigris.