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Continent: Asia
Population: 38.27 million.
Area: 168,754 mi²

government: Parliamentary Democracy,Politics of Iraq. The politics of Iraq take place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic.The current Prime Minister of iraq is Adil Abdul-Mahdi, who holds most of the executive authority and appointed the Council of Ministers, which acts as a cabinet and/or government.

President:Barham Salih
Barham Salih was born in 1960 in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq. He was arrested in 1979 by the Ba'athist regime twice on charges of involvement in the Kurdish national movement by taking some photos of protestors in Sulaimaniya city and spent 43 days in detention in a Special Investigation Commission prison in Kirkuk where he was tortured.Once released, he finished high school and left Iraq for the United Kingdom to flee continuous persecution.

Economy: Capitalism

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The major sources of environmental damage are effluents from oil refineries, factory and sewage discharges into rivers, fertilizer and chemical contamination of the soil,

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Most geographers, including those of the Iraqi government, discuss the country's geography in terms of four main zones or regions: the desert in the west and southwest; the rolling upland between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Arabic the Dijla and Furat, respectively the highlands in the north and northeast; and the alluvial plain through which the Tigris and Euphrates flow. Iraq's official statistical reports give the total land area as 438,446 km2 (169,285 sq mi), whereas a United States Department of State publication gives the area as natural resources in Iraq include natural gas, petroleum, sulfur and phosphates. In 2010, Iraq was globally considered as the 11th largest producer of crude oil whose production averaged about 2.5 Mbbl/d and accounted for 3.1% of the crude oil output

Major Cities
Baghdad:Population: 7.665 million

Mosul:Population: 664,221

Kirkuk

Basrah:Population: 2.15 million

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Life Expectancy

1997 - 68,99 years

69.86 years (2016)

Immigrants

32,121 to 102,000

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Currency -Iraqi dinar
GNP - 650.9 billion dollars

GDP197.7 billion USD

Exports - crude oil 99%, crude materials excluding fuels, food and live animals

Imports - ood, medicine, manufactures

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he politics of Iraq take place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic. ... The current Prime Minister of Iraq is Adil Abdul-Mahdi, who holds most of the executive authority and appointed the Council of Ministers, which acts as a cabinet and/or government.

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Culture. Iraq has long reflected cultural diversity. Although Iraqis generally are a religious and conservative people, there are strong secular tendencies in the country. Iraq is a Muslim nation with Arabic and Kurdish as its official languages.

Languages - Arabic,kurdish

Ethnicities - Assyrian people, Arab Christians,Solluba,etc.

Religions - 30% Sunni muslim ,62%shia muslim ,8% christian ,etc.

Traditions - Christmas , Valentine's Day,

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iraq has been called the Cradle of Civilization. The ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians all developed great empires in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. At later times, it was ruled by the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, and the Ottoman Turks.
1990 - On 2 August 1990 the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied Kuwait, which was met with international condemnation and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the UN Security Council. Together with the UK prime minister

2003 -The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. ... Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as U.S. forces swept through the country.

2008 - 1 March – Twenty-nine U.S. troops died in Iraq during February 2008, the third-lowest total of the nearly five-year-old war. 3 March – A pair of car bombings targeting Iraqi security forces killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in Baghdad.