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The Republic of Iraq[1] (conventional short form: Iraq)
(Arabic: العراق (help·info) translit: 'al-‘Irāq, Kurdish: عيَراق), is a
country in Southwest Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the
northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the
Syrian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south,
Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, and Iran to
the east. It has a very narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the
Persian Gulf. |
