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Infrastructures
Province of Duhok is an important commercial center. Ibrahim Al-Khaleel entrance
on the border with Turkey is one of the important points through which 40% of the
materials pass. The province has a strategic road links it to Turkey.

Education:
The province has more than five private Universities and Colleges most important of
which are (College of Agriculture, University of Duhok, and University of Kurdistan),
many technical and administrative institutes, 440 primary schools, 215 secondary
school and many Teachers’ Qualifying Institutes and vocational institutes and
schools.

Health
Province of Duhok has 19 hospitals inside the province and 157 medical center all
over its outskirts and districts.

Tourist Sites
Serseng summer resort
This is 126 km from Mosul. It is 1.046 m. above sea level. The maximum temperature
there during summer mounts to 34°.

Soulaf summer resort
This is (166) km from Mosul through a paved way, 5 km from Imadiah. It is 1150m
above sea level. It has many marvelous waterfalls as high as 25 m. The summer resort
is characterized by its numerous caves most important of which is Safi cave shaded by
nut trees.

Jarsteen cave
This is a four columned cave at the valley of Duhok. Some historical references and
some historians who visited the area confirm that it is one of the most ancient caves in
which man had lived.
Historians confirm that Jarsteen cave dates back to the middle ages with its most
ancient documents dates back to 12.000 years B. C. There is also the hill of Bastik
and of Kammoun which date back to the history of the Kurdish Metanic State, in
addition to the hill of Malta, the cave of Hilamta at Shandoukha, southward the
province center which dates back to the ages of the Kurdish medians.
Still, there are many other caves and antiques sculptured on stones and many other
ancient sites.