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Iraq
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Iraq is a country in the . The capital city is . Most of the people in Iraq speak and some people living in the north of the country speak Kurdish. Nearly all the people in Iraq are , following either Shia or Sunni Islam.
People have lived in for thousands of years, but Iraq did not become a country until 1932. The world's first know civilisation, , began in what is now southeastern Iraq. Sumerians used the world's first written language.
In the north of Iraq there are mountains. The covers south-western Iraq. The desert has many dry valleys. The rest of Iraq is made up of plains. There are two large rivers which run through the plains. They are called the and the rivers.
Syrian Desert Tigris
Muslims Arabic Sumer
Baghdad Iraq
Middle East Euphrates