Sinjar District

We don't know exact population numbers, but there are anywhere between 200,000 and 1 million Yazidis worldwide.

The largest populations are in the Sheikhan region northeast of Mosul and the Sinjar region west of Mosul.

But there are large populations in Syria, Armenia, and especially now in Germany as more and more Yazidis live in diaspora from their homeland.

They hit mainstream news in 2014 when the terrorist organization, the so-called Islamic State, seized the regions in northwest Iraq and proceeded to commit a genocide against the Yazidis, killing and enslaving thousands of them.