Iraq: A Country on the Rise

        Iraq is a country that is on the rise. After being low-down by allied troops for their

invasion of Kuwait, they have begun the slow make process. In this report, I will

discuss the basic geographic features of Iraq, and other conglomerate important features such as

mineral wealth, vegetation, ect.

        Iraqs total area is 271,128 square miles (just slimly more than twice the size of

Idaho). Its capital, Baghdad, is located at 33.20 jointure longitude, 44.24 east latitude. Its

boundaries are 2,222 miles long. With 906 miles bordering Iran, 83 miles bordering

Jordan, 149 miles bordering Kuwait, 502 miles bordering Saudi Arabia, 376 miles

bordering Turkey, and a coastline 36 miles long. The terrain in Iraq is mostly broad

plains, with reedy marshes in the s byheast, mountains along walk borders with Iran and

Turkey.

        The Climate in Iraq is most desert, with mild to cool winters and dry, hot

cloudless summers. The north regions along Iranian and Turkish borders

experience cold winters and occasional strong snows. Iraq has few natural resources,

consisting of Crude oil, natural gas, various phosphates, and sulfur. Their maritime

(ocean) scratch are just the continental shelf on their coastline, and xii nautical miles

beyond that.

        Iraq and Iran have just recently restored diplomatic traffic in the year 1990, but

are still trying to work out written agreements settling their disputes from their eight-year

war concerning definite borders, prisoners-of-war, and freedom of navigation and

s everywhereeignty over the Shatt-al-Arab waterway. In April of 1991, Iraq officially accepted

the UN Security Councils Resolution 687, which states that Iraq accepts the boundaries

that were set in its 1963 agreement with Kuwait, and ending all claims to the Bubiyan

and Warbah Islands, and all claims to Kuwait. On June 17, 1992, the UN Security

council reaffirmed the decisiveness of the Boundary...

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