Chamchamal (Kurdish: چه‌مچه‌ماڵ, romanized: Çemçemal,[1][2] Arabic: جمجمال) is a town located in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

it is the town which is nearest located to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.

[3] The city is a 30 minutes drive east from Kirkuk and an hour west of Sulaymaniyah.

The city has a historic citadel, and early Western observers of the region speculated that it has been inhabited since the Sassanid period.

[5] The Chamchamal valley is also home to important paleolithic sites of Jarmo and Zarzi.