Républik Irak , biasana katelahIrak (Basa Arab :العراق (pitulung ·info ) IPA :ʕiˈrɑːq ), nyaéta hijinagara diWétan Tengah nu ngampar lolobananana di tungtung kulon kalerPagunungan Zagros- , bagéan wetanGurun Siria sarta bagéan kalerGurun Arabia . Irak diwatesan kuKuwait jeungSaudi Arabia di béh kidul,Jordania di kulon,Suriah di kulon kaler,Turki di béh kaler sartaIran di wetaneunnana. Irak boga bagéan basisir nu heureut diUmm Qasr diTeluk Pérsia . Aya dua walungan nu ngalir:Tigris jeungÉfrat . Dua walungan ieu nyababkeun lemah Irak bisa dipaké tatanen, patukang tonggong jeung lanskap gurun nu nutupan lolobana wewengkon diWétan Tengah .
Irak mangrupikeundémokrasi parleménter ngembang anu diwangun ku 18kagubernuran (katelahmuhafadhat ). Ibu kotana,Baghdad , aya di tengah-wétan.Sajarah euyeub Irak balik deui ti jamanMesopotamia kuno. Wewengkon antara walungan Tigris jeung Éfrat dikenal salakuBulan Sabit Subur , tempat lahirna paradaban jeungtulisan . Dina sajarahna anu panjang, Irak parantos janten puseur kakaisaranAkkadia ,Assyria ,Babylonia sarengAbbasiyah , sarta bagian ti kawasaan kakaisaranAkhemenia ,Makedonia ,Parthia ,Umayyah ,Sassania ,Utsmaniyah sarengBritania Raya .
Since aninvasion in 2003 , amultinational coalition of forces , mainly American and British, has occupied Iraq. The invasion has had wide-réaching consequences:increased civil violence , political bréakdown, the removal andexecution of former présidéntSaddam Hussein , and national problems in the development ofpolitical balance ,economy , infrastructure, and use of the country's hugereserves of oil . According to the 2007Failed States Index , produced by theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace's Foreign Policy magazine and theFund for Peace , Iraq has recently emerged as the world's second most unstable country,[ 1] Sudan .[ 2]
Interview with Refugees International's Séan Garcia on the plight of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees[1] Archived 2007-03-13 diWayback Machine Shadid, Anthony 2005.Night Draws Near . Henry Holt and Co.,NY ,USA .ISBN 0-8050-7602-6 Hanna Batatu, "The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq", Princeton:Princeton University Press , 1978 Iraq was one of the major settings for the John J. Rust science fiction novel "Epsilon" A Dweller in Mesopotamia Archived 2005-05-25 diWayback Machine , being the adventures of an official artist in the garden of Eden, by Donald Maxwell, 1921.(a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries;DjVu &layered PDF Archived 2005-09-06 diWayback Machine format) By Desert Ways to Baghdad Archived 2005-04-02 diWayback Machine , by Louisa Jebb (Mrs. Roland Wilkins) With illustrations and a map, 1908 (1909 ed).(a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries;DjVu &layered PDF Archived 2005-09-06 diWayback Machine format) Tempo ogéIrak
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Warta
Lianna
Geografi lokal
Wétan Tengah
Nagara jeung téritori
Kaanggotaan internasional
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