Iraqis
| 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 |
|
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The Iraqi people (Arabic: العراقيون ʿIrāqīyūn, Kurdish: گهلی عیراق Îraqîyan, Syriac: ܥܡܐ ܥܝܪܩܝܐ ʿIrāqāyā, 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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