Spacing and Its Influence on the Sizes of Cities in Kirkuk Governorate

Abstract

       Studying the volums and their actual distribution and, its conformity to the theories of volumes cities received considerable interest by geographers in order to determine the effect of the distribution of the actual reality. This research aims at clarifying the sizes of cities in the province of Kirkuk, for the period of 2014 and the extent of this distribution mismatch between reality and theory on sizes of cities and sizes . It turned out that the reality does not match the size and theories but there is a clear control of the city of Kirkuk to the rest of the other affiliate cities administratively