Iraq

The country calling code for Iraq is +964. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Iraq number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Iraq is assigned IQ as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and IRQ as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Iraq is .iq. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Iraq is the Iraqi dinar, with the ISO 4217 code IQD and the symbol ع.د. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Iraq are quoted in IQD. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Iraq is +03:00, currently UTC+03:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Iraq is Baghdad. Iraq sits in Asia, specifically the Western Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 33.00000000, 44.00000000. Traffic in Iraq drives on the right. Languages recorded for Iraq: Arabic, Kurdish.

Iraq shares a land border with 6 countries: Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.