Iraq

Did you know?

• 🏛Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations in what is now Iraq developed some of the earliest writing, cities and sexagesimal mathematics — the base-60 system behind 60-minute hours.
• 🏛Hammurabi's Code, one of the oldest legal codes in history, was written here around 1754 BC.
• 🥇Home to one of the world's oldest universities — Mustansiriya, founded in 1227.
• ✨The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq still live in floating reed houses on the Tigris–Euphrates wetlands.
• 🛢Iraq has the world's 5th-largest proven oil reserves.