Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Basra Governorate
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Basra Governorate | |
 |
|
| Coordinates: | |
|---|---|
| Country | Iraq |
| Capital | Basra |
| Area | |
| - Total | 19,070 km² (7,363 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| - Total | 2,565,893 |
| Main language(s) | Arabic |
Basra province, or Al Basrah province, is a province of Iraq, with an area of 19,070 square kilometers (7,363 sq mi) and an estimated population of about 2,600,000 (2003). Its capital is Basra, the country's second largest city; other major cities include Corna (Eden), Az Zubayr, Umm Qasr and Abu Al Khaseeb. The province has international borders with Kuwait to the south and Iran to the east.
Contents |
Historically, under the Ottoman Empire, Basra province included the modern-day state of Kuwait. After defeating the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the United Kingdom combined the old Ottoman provinces (vilayets) of Basra, Baghdad and Mosul to form the state of Iraq, which Britain controlled as a League of Nations mandate. Kuwait had become a separate British protectorate shortly before the outbreak of World War I.
A proposal to join Basra with the neighbouring governorates of Dhi Qar and Maysan to form a southeastern state in an eventual Iraqi federation is currently under discussion. A new law, passed by the Iraqi Parliament in 2006, allows for the merger of two or more provinces as of April 2008.
On the 9th of December 2007, it was announced by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that control of the Basra Governorate would be handed over from Coalition forces to local Iraqi control, which would make it the 9th such governorate to be handed over.[1]
- ^ "Iraq to be given control of Basra". BBC NEWS, December 9, 2007.
|
|
|
|---|---|
| Al-Anbar • Arbīl • Bābil • Baghdād • Al-Basrah • Dahūk • Dhī Qār • Diyālā • Karbalā' • Maysān • An-Najaf • Nīnawā • Al-Muthannā • Al-Qādisiyyah • Kirkūk • Salāh ad-Dīn • As-Sulaymāniyyah • Wāsit |
 |
|
This Iraq geographical location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |