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Capital
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Baghdad
Population
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24,001,816 (July 2002 est.)
Area
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total: 437,072 sq km, slightly more than twice the size of Idaho
Type of Government
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in transition following April 2003 defeat of SADDAM Husayn regime by US-led coalition
Money
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Iraqi dinar (IQD)
Climate
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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
Primary Language
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Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian
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