Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Baghdad
- Region
- Asia, Western Asia
- Population
- 47,020,774 (2025)
- Area
- 437,072 km²
- Currency
- Iraqi dinar (IQD)
- Languages
- Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian
- Calling code
- +964
- Internet domain
- .iq
- ISO codes
- IQ, IRQ, 368
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Iraq covers about 437,072 square kilometres. By area it ranks 60th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Morocco and a little larger than Paraguay. It shares a land border with 6 neighbours: Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Türkiye. Its centre lies at about 33° north, 44° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 47 million people live in Iraq (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 34th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.57 percent of the world's people. On average there are 108 people to each square kilometre. About 70 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 72 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian. A person from Iraq is called Iraqi.
Money and economy
The currency is the Iraqi dinar (code IQD, symbol ع.د). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 254 billion (2025), which is about US$ 5,410 for each person (2025).
Time
Iraq uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Asia/Baghdad). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Baghdad | 7,216,000 |
| Mosul | 1,683,000 |
| Erbil | 1,612,700 |
| Basrah | 1,326,564 |
| Karbala | 1,218,732 |
| Sadr City | 1,211,849 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Asia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.