Map of Iraq

Iraq is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 33.0° N, 44.0° E. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Iraq is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Iraq shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Iraq covers about 438,317 km² (169,235 sq mi). That makes it the 58th-largest country in the world by area and the 16th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 33 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 46,118,793, the 34th-largest in the world and the 14th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 1.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Iraq has an average population density of about 105 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 14th by population and 16th by area.

The seat of government is Baghdad, and the official currency is the Iraqi dinar (IQD, ع.د), and the main official languages are Arabic, Aramaic and Sorani. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Iraq carries the ISO country codes IQ and IRQ, dials on the international calling code +964 and uses the .iq internet domain.

Iraq shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Iran (capital Tehran, about 85,961,000 people), Turkey (capital Ankara, about 85,664,944 people), Saudi Arabia (capital Riyadh, about 35,300,280 people), Syria (capital Damascus, about 25,620,000 people), Jordan (capital Amman, about 11,734,000 people) and Kuwait (capital Kuwait City, about 4,881,254 people).

By area, Iraq is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 33.0° N, 44.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Iraq within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Baghdad. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Iraq lies about 3,663 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Iraq keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Iraqi dinar (IQD, ع.د).

The official languages are Arabic, Aramaic and Sorani, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +964 and websites commonly use the .iq internet domain.

In short, Iraq is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Baghdad. Iraq has a population of about 46,118,793 and covers around 438,317 km² (169,235 sq mi), ranking it 34th in the world by population and 58th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Iraq.

The flag of Iraq is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and black. In the central white band are Arabic inscriptions in green.

The flag of Iraq is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.