IraqDid you know?
- •Much of ancient Mesopotamia lay in what is now Iraq, where some of the world's earliest cities and writing systems appeared.
- •Baghdad was once the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and one of the great intellectual centers of the medieval world.
- •The Tigris and Euphrates both cross Iraq, shaping its history and agriculture for millennia.
Key Information
Capital
Baghdad
Population
46,1 million
Area
438,317 km²
GDP
273,9 billion $
Currency
IQD
Difficulty on MapGuesser
Medium
Subregion
Western Asia
Calling code
+964
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Iraq sits north of Saudi Arabia at the top of the Persian Gulf, between Syria, Turkey, and Iran.
Official Languages
ArabicKurdish
Flag Colors
rougeblancnoirvert
Flag History
Since the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état, the various republican governments of Iraq have used a number of different flags, all featuring the pan-Arab colors of green, black, white, and red. The current official and internationally recognized flag of Iraq was adopted in 2008 as a temporary compromise, and consists of the three equal horizontal red, white, and black stripes of the Arab Liberation Flag, that was first used by Gamal Abdel Nasser during the Egyptian Revolution, with the takbīr written in gr...
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Iraq shares its borders with 6 countries.
