Is an independent Arab state in Western Asia in the Arab League member, is bounded on the north by Turkey and Iran, and on the west Syria, Jordan, on the south by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, on the east by Iran and has a single port on the Arabian Gulf, is the Shatt al-Arab, which ends at the FAO city .
It is located between latitudes 29 and latitudes of the Northern Area 37 444 442 square kilometers, with its capital in Baghdad.
Iraq's official language is Arabic and its currency, the Iraqi dinar.
Iraq's territory is a sedimentary plains between the Tigris and Euphrates, one of the richest plains, and the desert to the west Levant, and to the south-west desert of Samawa, where deserts and sand.
In southern Iraq abound wetlands or what is known as marshes, and in the north and east rise the mountains, the most famous Mount Sinjar and a height of 1543 meters and Mount Rawandoz in the north-east and the 3460-meter high peak. Iraq months rivers Tigris and Euphrates, namely Qurna Akunan at what is known as the Shatt al-Arab, which flows at the FAO on the Arabian Gulf.
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