Geographical position: Iraq is located in Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Kuwait.
The country’s climate is 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.
Languages: Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian.
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.
Surface: 437,072 sq km
Population: 26,074,906
System of government: none; note - the Iraqi Interim Government (IG) was appointed on 1 June 2004
Capital: Baghdad
Religion: Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3%
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