Iraq
Republic of Iraq
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About Iraq
Iraq is mostly desert with marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas between the two major rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey, with the highest point being Haji Ibrahim at 3,600 m.
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General information
- Capital: Baghdad
- Language: Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian
- Climate: 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
- Timezone: UTC + 3
- Currency: 1 Iraqi dinar (IQD) = 1,000 fils. New Iraqi dinar (NID) as of 22 January 2004
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- No. of inhabitants: 26,074,906 (July 2005 est.)
- Interl. accesscode +964
- Toplevel domain .iq
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Iraq is challenged after the war to restore civil order, introduce a new political system and reconstruct the country.
Religion: Muslim
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