Western Asia
Flag of Iraq
Where civilization first learned to write.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #c00018 32%
- #000000 32%
- #f0f0f0 24%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Iraq in numbers
| Official name | Republic of Iraq |
|---|---|
| Capital | Baghdad |
| Region | Western Asia, Asia |
| Population | 40,222,503 |
| Area | 438,317 km² · 92 people per km² |
| Currency | Iraqi dinar (IQD) |
| Languages | Arabic, Kurdish |
| Country codes | IQ · IRQ · .iq |
| Coastline | Has a coast |
Things worth knowing
- The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, ancient Mesopotamia, is widely called the cradle of civilization, home to Sumer and Babylon.
- Cuneiform, among the earliest known writing systems, was pressed into clay tablets here more than five thousand years ago.
- In the southern marshes, the Marsh Arabs live in arched houses of woven reeds, some raised on reed islands they build up from the wetlands themselves.
Did you know
The Epic of Gilgamesh, written here on clay tablets, is one of humanity's oldest surviving works of literature, predating Homer by well over a thousand years.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.