English > Iraq: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq. |
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| Synonyms | Republic of Iraq, Al-Iraq, Irak |
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| Instance of | Asian country, Asian nation | Any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |
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| Member of | Arab League | An international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural / cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation |
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| Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries, OPEC | An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum |
| Members | Iraqi, Iraki | A native or inhabitant of Iraq |
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| Part of | Asia | The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population |
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| Gulf States | The countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf |
| Middle East, Mideast, Near East | The area around the eastern Mediterranean |
| Parts | Assur, Asur, Ashur | An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria |
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| Assyria | An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq |
| Babylonia, Chaldaea, Chaldea | An ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia |
| Baghdad, Bagdad, capital of Iraq | Capital and largest city of Iraq |
| Basra, Basia | The second largest city in Iraq |
| Chaldea, Chaldaea | An ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert |
| Euphrates, Euphrates River | A river in southwestern Asia |
| Iraqi Kurdistan | The part of Kurdistan that is in northwestern Iraq |
| Kerbala, Karbala, Kerbela | A city of central Iraq to the south of Baghdad |
| Kirkuk | A city in northeastern Iraq |
| Kurdistan | An extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus |
| Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates |
| Mosul | A city in northern Iraq on the Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh |
| Nineveh | An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq |
| Sumer | An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq |
| Syrian Desert | A desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia |
| Tigris, Tigris River | An Asian river |
| Region of | Akhbari | A religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli |
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| Ansar al Islam, Ansar al-Islam, Supporters of Islam | A radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States |
| Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Assyrian | The language of modern Iraq |
| Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-RC, Abu Nidal Organization, ANO, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Black September, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | A Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974 |
| Iraqi Intelligence Service, IIS, Iraqi Mukhabarat | The most notorious and possibly the most important arm of Iraq's security system |
| Republican Guard | formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad |
| Spanish | Irak, Iraq |
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| Catalan | Irak, Iraq |
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| Adjectives | Iraqi, Iraki | of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture |
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