Information about Republic Of Iraq
| جمهورية العراق Jumhūriyyat ul-ʿIrāq Jomhūrī-ye Īrāq Republic of Iraq | ||||||
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| Motto الله أكبر (Arabic) "Allahu Akbar" (transliteration) "God is the Greatest" | ||||||
| Anthem Mawtini (new) Ardh Alforatain (previous)1 | ||||||
| Capital (and largest city) | Baghdad2 | |||||
| Official languages | Arabic, Kurdish3, Aramaic | |||||
| Demonym | Iraqi | |||||
| Government | Developing parliamentary democracy | |||||
| - | President | Jalal Talabani | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Nouri al-Maliki | ||||
| Independence | ||||||
| - | from the Ottoman Empire | October 1 1919 | ||||
| - | from the United Kingdom | October 3 1932 | ||||
| - | Water (%) | 1.1 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2006 estimate | 26,783,3834 (40th) | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2006 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $89.8 billion (61st) | ||||
| - | Per capita | $2,900 (130th) | ||||
| FSI (2007) | 111.4 | |||||
| Currency | Iraqi dinar (IQD) | |||||
| Time zone | AST (UTC+3) | |||||
| - | Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC+4) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .iq | |||||
| Calling code | +964 | |||||
| 1 | The Kurds use Ey Reqîb. | |||||
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al-‘Arabiyyah in written Arabic (Kufic script):
Pronunciation: /alˌʕa.raˈbij.ja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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Pronunciation: /alˌʕa.raˈbij.ja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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takbīr or takbeer (تَكْبِير) is the Arabic name for the phrase
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Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. It is also the system of rules for that practice.
Technically, from a linguistic point of view, it is a mapping from one system of writing into another.
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Technically, from a linguistic point of view, it is a mapping from one system of writing into another.
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- For the Radiohead song, see "The National Anthem".
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Mawtini (Arabic: موطني “My Homeland”) is a popular poem written by famous Palestinian poet Ibrahim Touqan (Arabic: إبراهيم
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"Ardulfurataini Watan" (The Land of The Two Rivers) (Arabic: أرض الفراتين) is the old national anthem of Iraq.
The anthem was adopted in 1979, written by Shafiq Alkamali with music by Walid Georges Gholmieh.
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The anthem was adopted in 1979, written by Shafiq Alkamali with music by Walid Georges Gholmieh.
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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Population: 26,783,383 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 39.7% (male 5,398,645; female 5,231,760)
15-64 years: 57.3% (male 7,776,257; female 7,576,726)
65 years and over: 3% (male 376,700; female 423,295) (2006 est.
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Age structure:
0-14 years: 39.7% (male 5,398,645; female 5,231,760)
15-64 years: 57.3% (male 7,776,257; female 7,576,726)
65 years and over: 3% (male 376,700; female 423,295) (2006 est.
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Baghdad
بغدا?
A mosque in Baghdad, circa 1973.
The location of Baghdad within Iraq.
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بغدا?
A mosque in Baghdad, circa 1973.
The location of Baghdad within Iraq.
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An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. It is typically the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, though the law in many nations requires that government documents be produced in other
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al-‘Arabiyyah in written Arabic (Kufic script):
Pronunciation: /alˌʕa.raˈbij.ja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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Pronunciation: /alˌʕa.raˈbij.ja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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Kurdish}}}
Writing system: Kurdish alphabet (modified Arabic alphabet in Iraq and Iran, modified Latin alphabet in Turkey and Syria, modified Cyrillic in the former USSR)
Official status
Official language of: Iraq
Kurdish Autonomous Region
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Writing system: Kurdish alphabet (modified Arabic alphabet in Iraq and Iran, modified Latin alphabet in Turkey and Syria, modified Cyrillic in the former USSR)
Official status
Official language of: Iraq
Kurdish Autonomous Region
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Aramaic}}}
Writing system: Aramaic abjad, Syriac abjad, Hebrew abjad, Mandaic alphabet with a handfull of inscriptions found in Demotic[2] and Chinese[3] characters.
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Writing system: Aramaic abjad, Syriac abjad, Hebrew abjad, Mandaic alphabet with a handfull of inscriptions found in Demotic[2] and Chinese[3] characters.
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A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. In English, the name of a people's language is often the same as this word, e.g., the "French" (language or people).
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Population: 26,783,383 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 39.7% (male 5,398,645; female 5,231,760)
15-64 years: 57.3% (male 7,776,257; female 7,576,726)
65 years and over: 3% (male 376,700; female 423,295) (2006 est.
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Age structure:
0-14 years: 39.7% (male 5,398,645; female 5,231,760)
15-64 years: 57.3% (male 7,776,257; female 7,576,726)
65 years and over: 3% (male 376,700; female 423,295) (2006 est.
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state.
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Iraq
This article is part of the series:
Politics of Iraq
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This article is part of the series:
Politics of Iraq
- Constitution
- Presidency Council
- President (Jalal Talabani)
- Council of Ministers
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Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: جه لال تاله بانی / Celal Talebanî / Jelal Talebaní Arabic:
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The Prime Minister of Iraq is Iraq's head of government. Prime Minister was originally an appointed office, subsidiary to the head of state, and the nominal leader of the Iraqi parliament.
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Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل المالكي, transliterated Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī; born c.
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Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty.
The term independence is used in contrast to subjugation,
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The term independence is used in contrast to subjugation,
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Ottoman Empire or Ottoman Caliphate (1299 to 1922) (Old Ottoman Turkish: دولت عالیه عثمانیه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish:
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Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church - Patronage/Protection of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary, Mother of God) dating to 10th Century Constantinople, when she appeared holding her mantle over the faithful who were praying in a church during a military attack on the city.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922
Year 1919 (MCMXIX
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1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922
Year 1919 (MCMXIX
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2] (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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"Dieu et mon droit" [2] (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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October 3 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935
Year 1932 (MCMXXXII
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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935
Year 1932 (MCMXXXII
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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