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Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, historically known in the west as Mesopotamia, is a country in West Asia. Located within the Middle East, it is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The country covers an area of 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi) and has a population of over 46 million, making it the 58th largest country by area and the 31st most populous in the world. Baghdad, home to over 8 million people, is the capital city and the largest in the country.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
These are English demonyms for people from Iraq. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
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Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
City-states of southern Mesopotamia, in present-day southern Iraq.
City and divine emblems survive in art. The object called the Standard of Ur is not a cloth flag; its original function is uncertain.
Explore the evidence & illustrations →An empire centered in Iran; parts of these modern countries were held at different times, not for its entire lifespan.
Ancient accounts describe an eagle standard. Modern flag reconstructions should not be mistaken for a surviving national flag.
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Oneasy; public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Modern artist's reconstruction.
Reconstructed royal banner
Centered in Iran and Mesopotamia; its wider frontiers shifted over time.
The Derafsh Kaviani is described as a royal banner. Its familiar modern drawings are reconstructions, not surviving cloth.
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Read the historical overview →An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.
Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.
BEYOND THE MAP
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Iraq. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.
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Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
mostly 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 early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern Iraq
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Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: cities, languages, population.
