Iraq

Iraq is a republic in the . It has an extremely rich history and culture that is still visible today, although accessing it may pose some challenges to visitors.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Baghdad and Babylon.

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is the capital and largest city of Iraq, with an estimated population of 6-7 million. Once one of the greatest centres of learning and culture in the world, was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

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is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iraq, today only ruins; it was once one of the most prominent cities of Ancient Mesopotamia. Alexander the Great chose to be the capital of the great empire he had created, and died there while planning further conquests; for several centuries after that it was a major center of the Seleucid Empire founded by one of his generals.

is a city in Iraq's Northwestern region, and is the country's second largest city by population. Its religious makeup is one of the most diverse in the country.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Iraq.

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The Kurdistan Region of Iraq, also known as is an autonomous region in Iraq. There are also Kurds in several other countries; for an overview see .

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stretches south of the of Iraq to . It is also referred to as Lower Mesopotamia or the Cradle of Civilization. The largest religious group in the area is Shia Islam.

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is a region largely between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the northwestern part of Iraq.

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The are at the cultural and political center of Iraq, radiating outward from the center at .

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The is the western and southwestern part of Iraq, spanning an enormous but barely populated region of desert.

Iraq

Latitude of center
33° north
Longitude of center
44° east
Population
28,900,000
Area
437,072 km² (168,754 miles²)
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dinar (IQD)
Phone code
.iq
Internet domain
964
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424316205
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
99237
Wiki­data ID
Q796
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Iraq” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ирак”
  • Abkhazian: “Ираҟ”
  • Achinese: “Irak”
  • Adyghe: “Ирак”
  • Afrikaans: “Irak”
  • Akan: “Irak”
  • Albanian: “Irak”
  • Albanian: “Iraku”
  • Amharic: “ኢራቅ”
  • Amis: “Iraq”
  • Angika: “इराक”
  • Arabic: “الجمهورية العراقية”
  • Arabic: “العراق”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية العراق”
  • Arabic: “جُمْهُوريَّة العِرَاق”
  • Arabic: “عراق”
  • Aragonese: “Iraq”
  • Armenian: “Իրաք”
  • Arpitan: “Iraq”
  • Assamese: “ইৰাক”
  • Asturian: “Iraq”
  • Atayal: “Iraq”
  • Avaric: “ГӀиракъ”
  • Awadhi: “ईराक”
  • Azerbaijani: “İrak”
  • Azerbaijani: “İraq R”
  • Azerbaijani: “İraq Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “İraq”
  • Balinese: “Irak”
  • Bambara: “Iraki”
  • Bashkir: “Ираҡ”
  • Basque: “Irak”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Irak”
  • Bavarian: “Irak”
  • Belarusian: “Ірак”
  • Bengali: “ইরাক”
  • Betawi: “Irak”
  • Bhojpuri: “ईराक”
  • Bishnupriya: “ইরাক”
  • Bislama: “Irak”
  • Bosnian: “Irak”
  • Brahui: “Irák”
  • Breton: “Irak”
  • Breton: “Iraq”
  • Buginese: “Iraq”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨗᨑ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ирак”
  • Burmese: “အီရတ်”
  • Burmese: “အီရတ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Iraq”
  • Catalan: “República de l’Iraq”
  • Cebuano: “Irak”
  • Cebuano: “Iraq”
  • Central Bikol: “Iraq”
  • Central Kanuri: “Iraq”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “عراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “عیراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “عێراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “عێڕاق”
  • Central Kurdish: “كۆمارى عێراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری عێراق”
  • Central Kurdish: “وڵاتی عێراق”
  • Chavacano: “Iraq”
  • Chechen: “Ӏиракъ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᎳᎩ”
  • Chinese: “Iraq”
  • Chinese: “Yīlākè”
  • Chinese: “伊拉克”
  • Choctaw: “Ilak”
  • Church Slavic: “Иракъ”
  • Chuvash: “Ирак”
  • Cornish: “Irak”
  • Corsican: “Iraccu”
  • Corsican: “Iraq”
  • Corsican: “Republica d’Iraccu”
  • Corsican: “Ripublica d’Iraccu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Îrak”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Iraq”
  • Croatian: “Irak”
  • Czech: “Irácká republika”
  • Czech: “Irák”
  • Dagbani: “Iraq”
  • Danish: “Irak”
  • Dhivehi: “ޢިރާޤު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Iraq”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İraq”
  • Dotyali: “इराक”
  • Dutch: “Irak”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Irak”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨི་རཱཀ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ирак”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “العراق”
  • Erzya: “Ирак Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Irako”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Irako”
  • Estonian: “Iraagi Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Iraak”
  • Ewe: “iraqdukɔ”
  • Extremaduran: “Iraq”
  • Farefare: “Iraq”
  • Faroese: “Irak”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Iraq”
  • Finnish: “Irak”
  • Finnish: “Irakin tasavalta”
  • French: “al-‘Irāq”
  • French: “Irak”
  • French: “Iraq”
  • French: “République d’Irak”
  • Fulah: “Iraak”
  • Fulah: “Irak”
  • Gagauz: “İrak”
  • Galician: “Iraq”
  • Galician: “República de Iraq”
  • Gan Chinese: “伊拉克”
  • Ganda: “Yiraaka”
  • Georgian: “ერაყი”
  • German: “Irak”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Iraq”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Iraq”
  • Gilaki: “عراق”
  • Goan Konkani: “Iraq”
  • Goan Konkani: “इराक”
  • Gorontalo: “Irak”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌺”
  • Greek: “Ιράκ”
  • Guarani: “Irake”
  • Guarani: “Iráke”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Irak”
  • Gujarati: “ઇરાક”
  • Gujarati: “ઈરાક”
  • Haitian: “Irak”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Iraq”
  • Hausa: “Irak”
  • Hausa: “Iraƙi”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻIlaka”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻO Iraq”
  • Hebrew: “עיראק”
  • Hebrew: “עירק”
  • Hindi: “इराक”
  • Hindi: “इराक़”
  • Hindi: “ईराक”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsumhúrija al-Irakijja”
  • Hungarian: “Irak”
  • Hungarian: “Iraki Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Irak”
  • Iban: “Iraq”
  • Icelandic: “Írak”
  • Ido: “Irak”
  • Igbo: “Iraq”
  • Iloko: “Irak”
  • Inari Sami: “Irak täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Irak”
  • Indonesian: “Irak”
  • Indonesian: “Iraq”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Irak”
  • Ingush: “Ирак”
  • Ingush: “Иракъ”
  • Interlingua: “Irak”
  • Interlingua: “Iraq”
  • Interlingue: “Irak”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐃᕉᒃ”
  • Irish: “an Iaráic”
  • Irish: “An Iaráic”
  • Irish: “Iaráic”
  • Italian: “Iraq”
  • Italian: “Repubblica d’Irak”
  • Italian: “Repubblica d’Iraq”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Irak”
  • Japanese: “イラク”
  • Japanese: “イラク共和国”
  • Javanese: “Irak”
  • Kabardian: “Ирак”
  • Kabardian: “Иракъ”
  • Kabiyè: “Irakɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Ɛiraq”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Iraq”
  • Kalaallisut: “Irak”
  • Kalaallisut: “Iraq”
  • Kalmyk: “Иракудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಇರಾಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Irak”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “İrak”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “İraq”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Иракъ”
  • Kashmiri: “ایٖراق”
  • Kashmiri: “عِراق”
  • Kashubian: “Irak”
  • Kazakh: “Ирак”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ីរ៉ាក់”
  • Kikuyu: “Iraki”
  • Kikuyu: “Iraq”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Irake”
  • Kirghiz: “Ирак”
  • Komering: “Irak”
  • Komering: “Iraq”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ирак”
  • Komi: “Ирак”
  • Kongo: “Iraq”
  • Korean: “이라크”
  • Kotava: “Iraka”
  • Kurdish: “‘Êraq”
  • Kurdish: “Êraq”
  • Kurdish: “Iraq”
  • Kurdish: “îraq”
  • Kurdish: “Iraqê”
  • Kurdish: “Komar-î ‘Êraq”
  • Kurdish: “عێراق”
  • Ladin: “Irach”
  • Ladin: “Iraq”
  • Ladino: “Cumhuriyet de İrak”
  • Ladino: “Irak”
  • Ladino: “İrak”
  • Ladino: “Respublika de Irak”
  • Ladino: “Respublika de İrak”
  • Lao: “ອີຣັກ”
  • Latin: “Irac”
  • Latin: “Iraca”
  • Latin: “Iracia”
  • Latin: “Iracum”
  • Latin: “Iracus”
  • Latin: “Iraquia”
  • Latin: “Mesopotamia”
  • Latvian: “Irāka”
  • Lezghian: “Ирак”
  • Lezghian: “Иракъ”
  • Ligurian: “Iraq”
  • Limburgan: “Irak”
  • Lingala: “Irak”
  • Lingala: “Iraki”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Irac”
  • Literary Chinese: “伊拉克”
  • Lithuanian: “Irakas”
  • Livvi: “Irak”
  • Lojban: “raksygu’e”
  • Lombard: “Irak”
  • Low German: “Irak”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Irak”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Iraki”
  • Lule Sami: “Iráhkka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Irak”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Irac”
  • Macedonian: “Ирак”
  • Madurese: “Irak”
  • Magahi: “इराक”
  • Maithili: “इराक”
  • Malagasy: “Irak”
  • Malagasy: “Iraka”
  • Malagasy: “Iràka”
  • Malay: “iq”
  • Malay: “Iraq”
  • Malay: “Republik Iraq”
  • Malay: “عراق”
  • Malayalam: “ഇറാഖ്‌”
  • Malayalam: “ഇറാഖ്”
  • Maltese: “Iraq”
  • Maltese: “l-Iraq”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Iraq”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯔꯥꯛ”
  • Manx: “yn Earack”
  • Manx: “Yn Earack”
  • Maori: “Īrāki”
  • Marathi: “इराक”
  • Mazanderani: “عراق”
  • Mazanderani: “عیراق”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “الجمهورية العراقية”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “العراق”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “جمهورية العراق”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “عراق”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ĭ-lăk”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Iraq”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “I-lak”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Irak”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iraq”
  • Minangkabau: “Irak”
  • Mingrelian: “ერაყი”
  • Mingrelian: “ერაყიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mirandese: “Eiraque”
  • Moksha: “Ирак”
  • Mongolian: “Ирак”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لعراق”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لعيراق”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߙߊߞߌ߬ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߙߊߞߌ߬”
  • Nauru: “Irak”
  • Navajo: “Honoojítah Tooh Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “इराक”
  • Newari: “इराक”
  • North Ndebele: “Iraki”
  • Northern Frisian: “Iraak”
  • Northern Luri: “عراق”
  • Northern Sami: “Irak dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Irak”
  • Northern Sami: “Iraka dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Irak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Irak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Irak”
  • Norwegian: “Irak”
  • Novial: “Irak”
  • Obolo: “Irâk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Iraq”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܥܝܪܐܩ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܥܪܩ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Irac”
  • Oriya: “ଇରାକ”
  • Oriya: “ଇରାକ୍”
  • Oromo: “Iraaq”
  • Ossetian: “Ирак”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အီရတ်ခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “ईराक”
  • Pampanga: “Irak”
  • Pampanga: “Iraq”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਰਾਕ”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਰਾਕ਼”
  • Papiamento: “Irak”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Iraek”
  • Persian: “جمهوری عراق”
  • Persian: “عراق”
  • Picard: “Irak”
  • Piemontese: “Irak”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Eraak”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Repablik o‘ Eraak”
  • Polish: “Irak”
  • Portuguese: “Iraque”
  • Portuguese: “República do Iraque”
  • Pushto: “عراق”
  • Quechua: “Irak”
  • Quechua: “Iraq”
  • Romanian: “Irak”
  • Romanian: “Iraq”
  • Romanian: “Republica Irak”
  • Romanian: “Ирак”
  • Romansh: “Irac”
  • Rundi: “Iraki”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ирак”
  • Russian: “Ирак”
  • Russian: “Республика Ирак”
  • Rusyn: “Ірак”
  • Sakizaya: “Iraq”
  • Samoan: “Iraki”
  • Samoan: “Iraq”
  • Samogitian: “Ėraks”
  • Samogitian: “Iraks”
  • Sango: “Irâki”
  • Sanskrit: “इराक्”
  • Sanskrit: “ईराक”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱨᱟᱠ”
  • Saraiki: “عراق”
  • Sardinian: “Iraq”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Irak”
  • Scots: “Iraq”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Iorac”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ioràc”
  • Serbian: “Irak”
  • Serbian: “Ирак”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Irak”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢီႇရၢၵ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Iraki”
  • Shona: “Iraq”
  • Sicilian: “Iraq”
  • Silesian: “Irak”
  • Sindhi: “عراق”
  • Sinhala: “ඉරාක ජනරජය”
  • Sinhala: “ඉරාකය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Iraak tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Iraakk tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Irak”
  • Skolt Sami: “Irakk”
  • Slovak: “Iracká republika”
  • Slovak: “Irak”
  • Slovenian: “Irak”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Irak”
  • Somali: “Ciraaq”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عراق”
  • Spanish: “Irak”
  • Spanish: “Iraq”
  • Spanish: “República de Irak”
  • Spanish: “República de Iraq”
  • Sundanese: “Irak”
  • Swahili: “Iraki”
  • Swahili: “Iraq”
  • Swati: “I-Irakhi”
  • Swedish: “Irak”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Irak”
  • Swiss German: “Irak”
  • Sylheti: “ꠁꠞꠣꠇ”
  • Tagalog: “Irak”
  • Tagalog: “Iraq”
  • Tajik: “Ироқ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Ироқ”
  • Talysh: “Irag”
  • Tamil: “அல்-இராக்”
  • Tamil: “இராக்”
  • Tamil: “இராக்கியக் குடியரசு”
  • Tamil: “ஈராக்”
  • Tamil: “ஈராக்கு”
  • Taroko: “Iraq”
  • Tatar: “Ğíraq”
  • Tatar: “Гыйрак”
  • Telugu: “ఇరాక్”
  • Tetum: “Irake”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอิรัก”
  • Thai: “อิรัก”
  • Tibetan: “ཡི་ལའ་ཁོ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་རག།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኢራቅ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Irak”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻIlaaki”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻIlaki”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Irak”
  • Tumbuka: “Iraq”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “Lɛiraq”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “العراق”
  • Turkish: “Irak”
  • Turkmen: “Yrak”
  • Twi: “Irak”
  • Tyap: “Irak”
  • Tyap: “Jumhūriyyat al-‘Irāq”
  • Tyap: “Komar-i ‘Êraq”
  • Tyap: “العراق”
  • Udmurt: “Ирак”
  • Uighur: “ئىراق”
  • Ukrainian: “Ірак”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Ірак”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Irak”
  • Urdu: “عراق”
  • Uzbek: “Iroq”
  • Venetian: “Irak”
  • Venetian: “Iraq”
  • Veps: “Irak”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Iraq”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Iraq”
  • Vietnamese: “I-rắc”
  • Vietnamese: “Iraq”
  • Vlaams: “Irak”
  • Vlax Romani: “Iraq”
  • Volapük: “Lirakän”
  • Võro: “Iraak”
  • Walloon: “Irak”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Irak”
  • Welsh: “Irac”
  • Western Armenian: “Իրաք”
  • Western Balochi: “ایراک”
  • Western Frisian: “Irak”
  • Western Panjabi: “عراق”
  • Wolof: “Iraak”
  • Wolof: “Irag”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊拉克”
  • Yakut: “Ираак”
  • Yakut: “Ирак”
  • Yiddish: “איראק”
  • Yoruba: “Irak”
  • Yoruba: “Iraki”
  • Yue Chinese: “Iraq”
  • Yue Chinese: “الجمهورية العراقية”
  • Yue Chinese: “العراق”
  • Yue Chinese: “كۆماری عێراق”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊拉克”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊拉克共和國”
  • Zeeuws: “Irak”
  • Zhuang: “Iraq”
  • Zulu: “I-Iraki”
  • Zulu: “i-Iraq”
  • “IQ”
  • “Iraak”
  • “Irac”
  • “Irak”
  • “Irak Axkayotl”
  • “Iraks”
  • “Iraq”
  • “IRQ”
  • “ma Ilaka”
  • “ma Ilakija”
  • “Q796”
  • “ईराक”

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