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Middle East
Republic of Iraq
🗺️ Baghdad, Iraq
Capital city
📍 33.3152°, 44.3661°View larger map →
📍 Essential Info
CapitalBaghdad
TimezoneUTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Population42.9M
Governmentfederal parliamentary republic
🔌 Practical Info
Driving SideRight
Electrical PlugsVaries
Internet Code.iq
Internet Users82%
GDP per Capita$12,700
🌍 Geography
LocationMiddle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Kuwait
Size Comparisonslightly more than three times the size of New York State
Climatemostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in...
Terrainmostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
👥 People & Culture
Ethnic GroupsArab 75-80%, Kurdish 15-20%, other 5% (includes Turkmen, Yezidi, Shabak, Kaka'i, Bedouin, Romani, Assyrian, Circassian, Sabaean-Mandaean, Persian)
ReligionsMuslim (official) 95-98% (Shia 61-64%, Sunni 29-34%), Christian 1% (includes Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Assyrian Church of the East), other 1-4%...
Median Age22.7 years
Life Expectancy73.7 years
National HolidayIndependence Day, 3 October (1932)
Cultural Information
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Data sourced from the CIA World Factbook