I am talking about Iraq.
Iraq lies between 29 and 38 degrees N latitude and 39 49 degrees longitude. Deserts dominate most of the land and it has two major rivers called the Euphrates and Tigris. Near these rivers are fertile alluvial plains. The northern part of Iraq is covered in mountains. It has a little coastline with the Persian Gulf in the southeastern corner of Iraq measuring 36 miles. Close to the coast used to be many marshlands, but they were all drained out.
Iraq's leader, Jalal Talabani is the first non-arabic president. The government in Irag is was we define as a democratic, federal parliamentary republic. It has like what we have, voting, ethnic groups, three branches of government and presidents.
Iraq's economy is dominated by oil sector and it traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings. It has valuable farmland in the Kurdish territory. Many things have been shrinking the forests in the highlands. Most of the wood isn't suitable for cutting. Fishing industries have been relatively small and mining industry have been mining salt, sulfur and phosphate, but are extracted to relatively small amount. They make money by printing it. They replaced their old currency, the Indian rupee, with the dinar.
Due to violence and war Iraq is a place people think twice to go on a vacation, but there is one place that is peacful and perfect to go. It's called Kurdistan. The population in Iraq this year is 31,129,225 million people with a density of 183.8/sq mi. Some of the major cities are Baghdad, Mosul, Basrah, Irbil, Krikuk, Sulaymaniyah and much more. Baghdad is the capital and largest city with a population of 5,605,000( it could be higher since this is the 2002 score).
Two of their holidays are what we celebrate. One is Independence Day, and Christmas Day. They celebrate their own holidays like Republic Day and Islamic New Year and the Prophet's Birthday. This country was involved in WW1 when Ottoman ruled over Iraq and joined with the Germany and the Central Powers. We had a war with Iraq and it ended just recently. The troops have come back maybe last year and the war with Iraq ended.
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