!!!Iraq: Geography
||Location|Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Kuwait
||Geographic Coordinates|33 00 N, 44 00 E[{GoogleMap location='33.0,44.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''438,317 sq km\\''land: ''437,367 sq km\\''water: ''950 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 438317\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 438314\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 437072\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 433970\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 434128\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 437072''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''3,809 km\\''border countries: ''Iran 1,599 km, Jordan 179 km, Kuwait 254 km, Saudi Arabia 811 km, Syria 599 km, Turkey 367 km
||Coastline|58 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Persian Gulf 0 m\\''highest point: ''Cheekha Dar (Kurdish for "Black Tent"); 3,611 m
||Highest Mountains|__As there is no entry in [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com] we are listing mountain list of [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org] only:__\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Hasari Rost 3608 m; Sari Khazni 3298 m; Barbazin Rowst 2894 m; Qoch i Biri m ishka 2890 m; Shiv -e Sivil 2843 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Terrain|mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
||Natural Hazards|dust storms; sandstorms; floods
||Natural Resource|petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, sulfur
||Land Use|''arable land: ''9.19%\\''permanent crops: ''0.48%\\''other: ''90.33% (2011)
||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
||Irrigated Land|35,250 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|89.86 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers; a once sizable population of Marsh Arabs, who inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations; inadequate supplies of potable water; development of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey; air and water pollution; soil degradation (salination) and erosion; desertification
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Environmental Modification
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Baghdad; al-Mawsil; al-Basrah; Irbil; Kirkuk\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Baghdad; Al Basrah; Al Mawsil al Jadidah; Al Basrat al Qadimah; Mosul\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Iraq/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|strategic location on Shatt al Arab waterway and at the head of the Persian Gulf