33 Countries of Origin’ Profiles

IRAQ 2 GEOGRAPHY: Iraq is one of the easternmost countries of the Arab world. It is bordered to the North by Turkey, to the East by Iran, to the West by Syria and Jordan, and to the South by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Iraq has 36 miles (58 km) of coastline along the northern end of the Persian Gulf, giving it a small amount of territorial sea. Followed by Jordan, it is thus the Middle Eastern state with the least access to the sea and offshore sovereignty 1 . ©Encyclopaedia Britannica CAPITAL: Baghdad POPULATION: 39,339,753 2 . Iraq ranks number 36 in the list of countries by population. LANGUAGE: Iraq has two official languages: Arabic and Kurdish. Other languages including Turkmen (a Turkish dialect), Neo-Aramaic, and American are official in areas where native speakers of these languages comprise a majority of the population 3 . 1 https://www.britannica.com/place/Iraq 2 http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/iraq-population/ c orrect as of 9 th January 2018