Iraq
Iraq is a republic in the Middle East, north-west of the Persian Gulf. It borders Iran to the east, Kuwait to the south, Saudi Arabia to the southwest, Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, and Turkey to the north.
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Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. Once one of the greatest centres of learning and culture in the world, Baghdad has a long and illustrious history.Erbil
Erbil is the capital and largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the fourth-largest city in Iraq.Iraqi Kurdistan
Kurdistan refers to portions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, however only the Iraqi region of Kurdistan is discussed here.Mosul
Mosul is a city in Iraq's Northwestern region, and is the country's second largest city by population.Destinations
Baghdad Belts
The Baghdad Belts are at the cultural and political center of Iraq, radiating outward from the center at Baghdad.Southern Iraq
Southern Iraq stretches south of the Baghdad Belts of Iraq to Kuwait.Northwestern Iraq
Northwestern Iraq is a region largely between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the northwestern part of Iraq.Iraqi Desert
The Iraqi Desert is the western and southwestern part of Iraq, spanning an enormous but barely populated region of desert.Iraq
- Location: Middle East, Asia
- Population: 29,700,000
- Latitude of center: 33° or 33° north
- Longitude of center: 44° or 44° east
- Elevation: 44 meters (144 feet)
- Capital: Baghdad
- Area: 437,072 km² (168,754 miles²)
- Languages: Arabic, Kurdish and Armenian
- Currency: Dinar (IQD)
- Phone code: 964
- Internet domain: .iq
- Neighbors: Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey
- GeoNames ID: 99237
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Other Names for Iraq
- Afrikaans: Irak
- Akan: Irak
- Albanian: Irak
- Albanian: Iraku
- Amharic: ኢራቅ
- Arabic: العراق
- Arabic: جمهورية العراق
- Armenian: Իրաք
- Azerbaijani: İrak
- Azerbaijani: İraq
- Bambara: Iraki
- Basque: Irak
- Belarusian: Ірак
- Bengali: ইরাক
- Bosnian: Irak
- Bulgarian: Ирак
- Burmese: အီရတ်
- Central Khmer: អ៊ីរ៉ាក់
- Central Kurdish: كۆمارى عێراق
- Chinese: 伊拉克
- Chuvash: Ирак
- Cornish: Irak
- Croatian: Irak
- Czech: Irák
- Danish: Irak
- Dutch: Irak
- Dzongkha: ཨི་རཀ
- English: Republic of Iraq
- Esperanto: Irako
- Estonian: Iraak
- Ewe: iraqdukɔ
- Faroese: Irak
- Finnish: Irak
- French: Irak
- French: Iraq
- Fulah: Iraak
- Galician: Iraq - العراق
- Ganda: Yiraaka
- Georgian: ერაყი
- German: Irak
- Greek: Ιράκ
- Gujarati: ઇરાક
- Haitian: Irak
- Hausa: Iraƙi
- Hebrew: עיראק
- Hebrew: עירק
- Hindi: इराक
- Hindi: इराक़
- Hindi: ईराक
- Hungarian: Irak
- Icelandic: Írak
- Ido: Irak
- Iloko: Irak
- Indonesian: Irak
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Irak
- Irish: An Iaráic
- Italian: Iraq
- Japanese: イラク
- Japanese: イラク共和国
- Kalaallisut: Irak
- Kannada: ಇರಾಕ್
- Kikuyu: Iraki
- Korean: 이라크
- Kurdish: Komar-î ‘Êraq
- Kurdish: عێراق
- Kurdish: ‘Êraq
- Lao: ອີລັກ
- Latin: Iraquia
- Latin: Mesopotamia
- Latvian: Irāka
- Limburgan: Irak
- Lingala: Iraki
- Lithuanian: Irakas
- Low German: Irak
- Luba-Katanga: Iraki
- Luxembourgish: Irak
- Macedonian: Ирак
- Malagasy: Irak
- Malayalam: ഇറാക്ക്
- Malayalam: ഇറാഖ്
- Marathi: इराक
- Nauru: Irak
- Nepali (macrolanguage): इराक
- North Ndebele: Iraki
- Northern Sami: Irak
- Norwegian: Irak
- Norwegian Bokmål: Irak
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Irak
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܥܪܩ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Irac
- Oriya (macrolanguage): ଇରାକ୍
- Ossetian: Ирак
- Persian: عراق
- Polish: Irak
- Portuguese: Iraque
- Pushto: عراق
- Romanian: Irak
- Romanian: Ирак
- Romansh: Irac
- Rundi: Iraki
- Russian: Ирак
- Sango: Irâki
- Sanskrit: ईराक
- Scottish Gaelic: Iorac
- Serbian: Ирак
- Serbo-Croatian: Irak
- Sinhala: ඉරාකය
- Slovak: Irak
- Slovenian: Irak
- Somali: Ciraaq
- Spanish: Irak
- Swahili (macrolanguage): Iraki
- Swedish: Irak
- Tajik: Ироқ
- Tamil: இராக்
- Tamil: ஈராக்
- Tatar: Ğíraq
- Telugu: ఇరాక్
- Thai: ประเทศอิรัก
- Thai: อิรัก
- Tibetan: ཨི་རག།
- Tigrinya: ኢራቅ
- Tok Pisin: Irak
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻIulaaki
- Turkish: Irak
- Udmurt: Ирак
- Uighur: ئىراق
- Ukrainian: Ірак
- Upper Sorbian: Irak
- Urdu: عراق
- Uzbek: Iroq
- Vietnamese: I-rắc
- Volapük: Lirakän
- Welsh: Irac
- Western Frisian: Irak
- Yiddish: איראק
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Iraki
- Zulu: i-Iraq
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