The document provides a country profile of Iraq, detailing its official name, capital, languages, government, exports, and other key facts. It discusses Iraq's geography, climate, transportation infrastructure including roads, railways, ports and airports. The profile also covers Iraq's major religions, tourist attractions, and the languages spoken in the country.

1. IRAQ
ROOPESHV NAMBOODIRI
MBA(TT)
ROLL NO : 34

2. Present
Status

3. COUNTRY
PROFILE
Official Name : Al-Jumhūriyyah al-ʿIrāqiyyah
(Republic of Iraq)
Capital : Baghdad
Official Language : Arabic & Kurdish
Demonym : Iraqi
Government : Federal Parliamentary Republic
President : Fuad Masum
Prime Minister : Haider al-Ababi
Area : 4,37,072 km2 (59th)
Population : 36,004,552 (36th)
Currency : Iraqi Dinar (IQD)
Major Religion : Islam
Main exports : Crude oil
International Dialing code : 964

4. LOCATION

5. FLAG
&
EMBLEM

6. GEOGRAPHY
The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into four main regions
• the desert (west of the Euphrates)
• Upper Mesopotamia (between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers)
• the northern highlands of Iraqi Kurdistan
• Lower Mesopotamia, the alluvial plain extending from around Tikrit to
the Persian Gulf.
Iraq, a triangle of mountains, desert, and fertile river valley, is bounded
 on the east by Iran
 on the north by Turkey
 on the west by Syria and Jordan
 on the south by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
The country has arid desert land west of the Euphrates, a broad central valley
between the Euphrates and the Tigris, and mountains in the northeast.

8. CLIMATE
Iraq’s average temperature is 70 °F (21°C)
Average monthly rainfall is less than an inch (16 mm), depending on
the season
Two seasons
Summer : May to October
Winter : December to February
Temperatures in Baghdad average 95 °F (35 °C), but have been
recorded up to 123 °F (51 °C) during summers
Temperatures are mild with bouts of hot and cold ranging between 35
and 60 °F (2 to 15 °C) during winters
Rainfall averages just over an inch per month (29 mm) between
November and April.

9. MOUNTAINS

10. Two major rivers,
Tigris
and
Euphrates
run south through
the center of Iraq
and flow into the
Shatt al-Arab near
the Persian Gulf.
These rivers
provide Iraq with
significant amounts
of fertile land.
RIVERS

11. TRANSPORTATION
Transport in Iraq consists of highways, railways, waterways,
pipelines, ports and harbors, marines and airports.
Roads
Total: 44,900 km
Paved: 37,851 km
Unpaved: 7,049 km
Road traffic crashes rank as one of the leading causes of mortality in
Iraq. Around 75,000 lives were lost during the period 1979 to 2011
due to road traffic crashes.
Highway Of Death

12. RAILWAY
Iraqi Republic Railways (IRR) is the state company of Iraqi Railway
which is an economical establishment and symbol that contributed
in the economical, civilization and social development of Iraq.
IRR is composed of 1905 route-km.
The railway suffered approximately U.S.$1 billion in war and looting
damage from 1980 to 2003

13. METRO
Baghdad adopted the modernization by constructing a project
named ‘Metro Baghdad’ in order to dismantle the traffic congestion
in the main capital.
The metro consist of two lines and one main hub.
First : 18km (20 stations)
Second : 21km (21 stations)

14. PORTS
Umm Qasr Port Port of Basra
Abu Flous Port

15. AIRPORTS
Iraq has about 104 airports as of 2012.
Major airports include:
 Baghdad International Airport
 Basra International Airport
 Mosul International Airport
 Erbil International Airport
 Sulaimaniyah International Airport
 Najaf International Airport

16. AIRWAYSS

17. LANGUAGE
According to the constitution of 2005, the two official languages of Iraq are Arabic and
Kurdish
Turkmen and Assyrian neoAramaic also are official languages in regions where they
are spoken.
The two main regional dialects of Arabic spoken in Iraq are
Mesopotamian (spoken by about 11.5 million)
North Mesopotamian (spoken by about 5.4 million)
Other languages in Iraq are Armenian, Azeri, and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.

18. RELIGION
97 percent of Iraq’s population is Muslim.
60 – 65% - Shia Community
30 – 37% - Sunni Community

19. TOURISM
ATTRACTIONS

20. National
Museum
of Iraq

21. Ziggurat
ofUr

22. Al-Shaheed
Monument

23. Great
Mosque
of
Samarra

24. Baghdad
Zoo

25. CONTRIBUTION