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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
61. Iraq
verfasst von : C. J. Campbell
Erschienen in: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
Iraq is a landlocked country of 440,000 km2 in the centre of the Middle East. It includes relatively fertile regions along the valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, which drain into the Persian Gulf. But they are bordered by an arid plateau to the north and by extensive deserts to the south and west. It is home to almost 33 million people, of whom about 60% belong to the Shi’ia sect of Islam. An important Kurdish minority live in the north of the country