• Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Kuwait
• Geographic coordinates: 33 00 N, 44 00 E
• Map references: Middle East
• Area:
  
  Total: 437,072 sq km
  Land: 432,162 sq km
  Water: 4,910 sq km
• Area - comparative: slightly more than twice the size of Idaho
• Land boundaries:
  
  Total: 3,631 km
  Border countries: Iran 1,458 km, Jordan 181 km, Kuwait 242 km,
  Saudi Arabia 814 km, Syria 605 km, Turkey 331 km
• Coastline: 58 km
• Maritime claims:
  
  Continental shelf: not specified
  
  Territorial sea: 12 nm
• Climate: mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern Iraq
• Terrain: mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
• Elevation extremes:
  
  Lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m
  
  Highest point: Haji Ibrahim 3,600 m
• Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, sulfur