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Iraq (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 33 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 33.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 044 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 44.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area was center of civilization from 10th mill. BCE; Sumerians arrived 3500 BCE; Akkadian empire developed 2350 BCE, then Babylonian (18th century BCE) and Assyrian (7th century BCE); was invaded by Persians, Alexander, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs (7th century) and Ottomans; official language is Arabic, though English is also widely spoken; Kurdish is official language in Kurdish Autonomous Region. |
Names: |
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| Al-ʻIrāq (preferred,C,V,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Jumhüriyyat al ʻIrāq (C,V,O,Arabic (transliterated),U)
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| ʻIraq (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Al Iraq (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Al Jumhouriya al 'Iraquia (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻIrāqīyah (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Iraq (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Iraq (Quechuan)
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| Iraq (Tagalog)
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| Iraq (Maltese)
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| Iraq (Vietnamese)
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| Iraq (Indonesian)
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| Iraq (Romanian)
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| Iraq (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Iraq (Catalan)
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| Iraq (Aragonese)
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| Iraq (Asturian)
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| Iraq (Kurdish)
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| Iraq (Breton)
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| Iraq (French-P,U,N)
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| Iraq (Galician)
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| Iraq (Italian)
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| Iraq (Sicilian)
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| Iraq (Occitan)
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| Iraq (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Iraq (Pampanga)
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| Iraq (Shona)
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| Iraq (Arpitan)
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| Iraq (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Republic of Iraq (C,O,English,U,N)
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| République d'Iraq (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República del Iraq (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| Irak (C,O,Nauruan)
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| Irak (Malagasy)
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| Irak (Ilocano)
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| Irak (Indonesian)
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| Irak (Croatian)
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| Irak (Bosnian)
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| Irak (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Irak (Danish)
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| Irak (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Irak (Finnish)
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| Irak (Swedish)
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| Irak (Polish)
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| Irak (Romanian)
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| Irak (Slovak)
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| Irak (Slovene)
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| Irak (Spanish)
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| Irak (Basque)
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| Irak (Akan)
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| Irak (German-P,U,N)
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| Irak (Low German)
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| Irak (Albanian)
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| Irak (Cornish)
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| Irak (Dutch)
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| Irak (Afrikaans)
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| Irak (French)
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| Irak (Faroese)
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| Irak (Greenlandic)
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| Irak (Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Irak (Turkish)
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| Irak (Luxembourgish)
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| Irak (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Irak (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Irak (Western Frisian)
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| Irak (Upper Sorbian)
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| Irak (Norwegian)
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| Irak (Northern Sami)
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| Irak (Ido)
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| Irak (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Irak (Limburgan)
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| Iraque (C,O,Portuguese-P,U,N)
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| اَ عًِْرَاق (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُْهمورِ ةًَ اَ عًِْرَاق (C,V,O,Arabic,U)
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| Ирак (C,O,Chuvash)
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| Ирак (Serbian)
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| Ирак (Macedonian)
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| Ирак (Romanian)
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| Ирак (Bulgarian)
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| Ирак (Russian-P,U)
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| Ирак (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Ирак (Udmurt)
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| Республика Ирак (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 伊拉克 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 伊拉克共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| IRQ (C,O,ISO3L)
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| IQ (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO368 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| IZ (C,O,FIPS)
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| Iraqi (C,O,English,U,A)
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| עיראק (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Al ‘Irāq (C,U)
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| Al Jumhūrīyah al ‘Irāqīyah (C,U)
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| An Iaráic (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Ciraaq (C,U,Somali)
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| ‘Êraq (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Ğíraq (C,U,Tatar)
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| i-Iraq (C,U,Zulu)
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| Iorac (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Iraak (C,U,Estonian)
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| Iraak (Fulah)
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| I-rắc (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Irac (C,U,Welsh)
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| Irac (Anglo-Saxon)
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| Irac (Romansh)
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| Iraƙi (C,U,Hausa)
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| Írak (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Irák (C,U,Czech)
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| İrak (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Irāka (C,U,Latvian)
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| Irakas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Iraki (C,U,Rundi)
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| Iraki (Bambara)
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| Iraki (Lingala)
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| Iraki (Kikuyu)
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| Iraki (Luba-Katanga)
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| Iraki (North Ndebele)
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| Iraki (Swahili (generic))
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| Irâki (C,U,Sangho)
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| Irako (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Iraku (C,U,Albanian)
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| İraq (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Iraq - العراق (C,U,Galician)
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| iraqdukɔ (C,U,Ewe)
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| Iraquia (C,U,Latin)
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| Iroq (C,U,Uzbek)
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| ʻIulaaki (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Jumhūrīyat al ‘Irāq (C,U)
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| Komar-î ‘Êraq (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Lirakän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Mesopotamia (C,U,Latin)
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| Orílẹ́ède Iraki (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Yiraaka (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| ഇറാഖ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ئىراق (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Ιράκ (C,U,Greek)
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| இராக் (C,U,Tamil)
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| อิรัก (C,U,Thai)
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| ኢራቅ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ኢራቅ (Amharic)
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| عێراق (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ອີລັກ (C,U,Lao)
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| جمهورية العراق (C,U,Arabic)
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| עירק (C,U,Hebrew )
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| איראק (C,U,Yiddish)
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| ஈராக் (C,U,Tamil)
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| イラク (C,U,Japanese)
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| ერაყი (C,U,Georgian)
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| इराक़ (C,U,Hindi)
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| ইরাক (C,U,Bengali)
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| عراق (C,U,Pashto)
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| عراق (Urdu)
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| عراق (Persian-Farsi)
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| 이라크 (C,U,Korean)
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| ཨི་རཀ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| इराक (C,U,Marathi)
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| इराक (Hindi)
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| इराक (Nepali)
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| អ៊ីរ៉ាក់ (C,U,Khmer)
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| Ироқ (C,U,Tajik)
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| Իրաք (C,U,Armenian)
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| ܥܪܩ (C,U,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE))
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| كۆمارى عێراق (C,U,Central Kurdish)
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| Ірак (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Ірак (Belarusian)
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| ईराक (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| ईराक (Hindi)
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| ประเทศอิรัก (C,U,Thai)
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| イラク共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| العراق (C,U,Arabic)
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| ཨི་རག། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ഇറാക്ക് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| အီရတ် (C,U,Burmese)
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| ඉරාකය (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ఇరాక్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| ಇರಾಕ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ઇરાક (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ଇରାକ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Iraq (nation) (P) |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Iraq (nation) |
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Iraq (nation) |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Iraq (nation) (P,H) 612-330 BCE |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence from Britain in October 1932 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established July 1958; single-party republic under Socialist Bath party since 1968 |
| kingdom (H) |
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under Faisal I & II, 1921-1958 |
| territory (H) |
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Turkish, until 1921 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Baghdad .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Iraq, Mayorality of Baghdad) [7002482] |
| member of .... |
Arab League .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7000153] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
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