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Geography of Iraq Quiz

Can you answer these random questions about the geography of Iraq?
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What area's name literally means the "land between the rivers"?
Mesopotamia
What rivers is that name mainly referring to?
Euphrates
Tigris
What body of water do those two rivers empty into after merging to form Shatt al-Arab?
Persian Gulf
What is the largest dam in Iraq and on river #2, with namesake of a major Iraqi city?
Mosul Dam
What ancient capital is located near Baghdad?
Babylon
What is the most common name for the international zone of Baghdad?
Green Zone
What major desert covers the westernmost parts of Iraq?
Syrian Desert
What is the most populous city in southern Iraq?
Basra
What mountain range, starting with Z, is located between Iraq and Iran?
Zagros Mountains
What country does Iraq share its shortest border with?
Jordan
What area of land, where settled farming first emerged,
is also called the "cradle of civilization"?
Fertile Crescent
What type of ancient pyramid with steps can be found in ruin forms across Iraq?
Ziggurat
What ethnic-based region in northern Iraq has great self-autonomy?
Iraqi Kurdistan
What K city is the Baba Gurgur oil field, the largest in the world between 1927–1948 and
the birthplace of the Iraqi oil industry, located in the vicinity of?
Kirkuk
What persecuted religious group, starting with Y, only marry within their
own faith and community?
Yazidis
What tectonic plate is Iraq located on?
Arabian Plate
What type of waterlogged M area of land in southern Iraq, dominated by grasses and reeds
rather than trees, were drained between the 50s–90s?
Marshes
What F city was a major center for the insurgency during the Iraq War?
Fallujah
What G word, as if they were led by a U.S. state leader, describes the Iraqi subdivisions?
Governorate
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