Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates, produced the first known cities, writing and legal code.
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Iraq
Republic of Iraq ยท ุงูุนุฑุงู
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
438.32Kkmยฒ of land
$5.96KGDP / person
BaghdadCapital
- ISO codes
- IQ ยท IRQ
- Density
- 90 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani
- Currency
- Iraqi dinar (IQD)
- Dial code
- +964
- Internet domain
- .iq
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 33.0940ยฐ N, 43.2620ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Iraqi
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $234.09B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Iraq stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
36th
of 242 ยท 0.51% of world population
Land area
60th
of 242 ยท 0.29% of world land
GDP per person
137th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
113th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Iraq
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 39,309,783 people, the 36th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.51 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 438,317 kmยฒ, making it the 60th largest country here - about 10.6 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 90 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Baghdad, at 33.34ยฐ N, 44.39ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 5,054,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Syria (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Baghdad.
The currency is the Iraqi dinar (IQD, symbol ุน.ุฏ).
Has 3 official languages: Arabic, Aramaic and Sorani.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Baghdad
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Baghdad
Baghdad
33.3406ยฐ N, 44.3919ยฐ E
5.05M
2
Mosul
Ninawa
36.3469ยฐ N, 43.1431ยฐ E
1.32M
3
Basra
Al-Basrah
30.5155ยฐ N, 47.8116ยฐ E
870K
4
Najaf
An-Najaf
32.0003ยฐ N, 44.3354ยฐ E
665.55K
5
Kirkuk
At-Ta'mim
35.4722ยฐ N, 44.3923ยฐ E
601.43K
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Iraq.