As Sulaymaniyah (Arabic: السليمانيةcode: ar is deprecated , Kurdish: [Parêzgay Silêmanî] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a province in the east of Iraq. The capital is Sulaymaniyah. The area is 17,023 square kilometres (6,573 sq mi). Almost 1,800,000 people live there.