Iraq
Formal name:
Republic of Iraq
Capital:
Baghdad Climate:
mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern Iraq
Language:
Arabic (official), Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Turkoman (a Turkish dialect), Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic), Armenian
Population:
30,399,572 (July 2011 est.)
Currency:
Dinar (IQD)
Telephone Code:
964
Internet Code:
.iq