Iraq (, , or ; '; '), officially known as the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The capital, and largest city, is Baghdad. The main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds; others include Assyrians, Turkmen, Shabakis, Yazidis, Armenians, Mandeans, Circassians, and Kawliya. Around 95% of the country's /1e6 round 0 million citizens are Muslims, with Christianity, Yarsan, Yezidism, and Mandeanism also present. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish. 

Iraq has a coastline measuring on the northern Persian Gulf and encompasses the Mesopotamian Alluvial Plain, the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. Two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, run south through Iraq and into the Shatt al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. These rivers provide Iraq with significant amounts of fertile land. 

The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the cradle of civilisation. It was here that mankind first began to read, write, create laws, and live in cities under an organised government—notably Uruk, from which "Iraq" is derived. The area has been home to successive civilisations since the 6th millennium BC. Iraq was the centre of the Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires. It was also part of the Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid, and Ottoman empires.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is a river in Iraq?
2. Where is it?
3. What is another river?
4. Where does that one run?
5. Where do they feed into?
6. What mountain range is on part of Iraq's coast?
7. What is the country's official name?
8. What continent is it in?
9. What countries is it next to?
10. What else?
11. And to the southeast?
12. To the south?
13. Any others?
14. What are the primary ethnicities?
15. Is Athens the capital?
16. What is?
17. What is the main religion?
18. What is the official language?

Numbered answers:
1. the Tigris
2. it runs south through Iraq
3. Euphrates,
4. also south
5. he Persian Gulf.
6. the Zagros mountain range
7. the Republic of Iraq
8. Western Asia
9. Turkey
10. Iran
11. Kuwait \
12. Saudi Arabia
13. Jordan to the southwest
14. Arabs and Kurds;
15. no
16. Baghdad
17. Islam
18. Arabic and Kurdish