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Iraqi people

Iraqi people
العراقيون Irāqīyūn
Total population
38,750,000+
Regions with significant populations
 Iraq 31,234,000
 Syria 2 million+
 Iran 500,000+
 Turkey 500,000+
 United Kingdom 450,000+
 Jordan 500,000, or less
 Egypt 150,000+
 Germany 150,000+
 UAE 150,000+
 United States 140,000+
 Sweden 120,000+
 Kuwait 100,000+
 Lebanon 100,000+
 Yemen 100,000+
 Australia 80,000+
 Netherlands 60,000+
 Greece 5,000–40,000+
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Languages
Mesopotamian Arabic (79%)
Kurdish languages (17%)
Turkish language (2-8%)
Neo-Aramaic languages (2%)
Religion
Islam (97%)
(Twelver · Sunni · Others
Christianity, Mandaeism, Judaism, Yazidism and others

The Iraqis leads here. For The Iraqis political party, refer to The Iraqis (party)

The Iraqi people (Arabic: العراقيون ʿIrāqīyūn, Kurdish: گه‌لی عیراق Îraqîyan, Syriac: ܥܡܐ ܥܝܪܩܝܐʿIrāqāyā, Turkish: Iraklılar) are the citizens of the modern country of Iraq.

Arabs have had a large presence in Mesopotamia since the Sasanian Empire (224-637).Arabic was spoken by the majority in the Kingdom of Araba in the first and second centuries, and by Arabs in al-Hirah from the third century.Arabs were common in Mesopotamia at the time of the Seleucid Empire (3rd century BC). The first Arab kingdom outside of Arabia was established in Iraq's Al-Hirah in the third century. Arabic was a minority language in northern Iraq in the eighth century BC, from the eighth century following the Muslim conquest of Persia it became the dominant language of Iraqi Muslims because Arabic was the language of the Quran and of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Kurds who are Iraqi citizens live in the Zagros Mountains of northeast Iraq to the east of the upper Tigris. Arabic and Kurdish are Iraq's national languages.

In ancient and medieval times Mesopotamia was the political and cultural centre of many great empires, such as the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, and Babylonia. The ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer is the oldest known civilization in the world, and thus Iraq is widely known as the cradle of civilization. Iraq remained an important centre of civilization for millennia, up until the Abbasid Caliphate (of which Baghdad was the capital), which was the most advanced empire of the medieval world (see Islamic Golden Age).


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