Iraqi maps

The name of the cities in ancient Iraq.

Picture of Iraq and the border of the Arabian Desert.

Nearly half of Iraq is part of the Arabian Desert brother.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Desert

See the Arabic Wikipedia page also. They have the same map.

http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/صحراء_عربية

Brother, no matter which source then Iraq is included as one of the countries that are part of the Arabian Desert. Also there are several references/sources in both articles.

What it says under the picture I posted.

Map of the Arabian Desert. Ecoregions as delineated by the WWF. Satellite image from NASA. The yellow line encloses the ecoregion called "Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands",[1] and two smaller, closely related ecoregions called "Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert"[2] and "Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert".[3] National boundaries are shown in black.

I mean about 50 percent of Iraq's surface is desert land and the only two deserts in Iraq are the Arabia and Syrian. Thosel locals one are all either part of the Arabian Desert or Syrian Desert.

Yes Iraq has 2 deserts the arabian and the syrian. Now the borders are 100% WRONG. Since when does the marshes belong to the desert and since when does the fertile cresent, the euprates and the tigris rivers belong to any desert. I never knew I can find flamingos and water buffalos in the desert :/

CONFIRMATION: THE ABOVE MAP WITH YELLOW BORDERS DONE ON MICROSOFT PAINT IS 100% WRONG.

Thanks

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293631/Iraq/22926/Deserts

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/31610/Arabian-Desert

Encyclopedia Britannica.

"Iraq

The main ecological feature of Southern Iraq is the Arabian Desert. Iraq's southern desert is known as Al-Hajarah in the west of the vast region and Al-Dibdibah in the east. Al-Hajarah is a rocky desert with wadis, ridges and depressions, while Al-Dibdibah is a sandy desert with scrub vegetation. Elevations range between averages of 300 and 1,200 feet, with the highest point being the 3,119-foot Mount Unayzah, near Iraq's borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia"

But there are also many fertile areas in KSA which are part of Arabian Desert. A certain region can be part of the Arabian Desert without being completely desert land. 40 percent of Iraq's surface is desert (Syrian and Arabian).

Does not mean that the country is not fertile which it is overall. Not my point anyway.

Also, most of Hejaz is part of the Arabian Desert but it's an very fertile area.

It's not as white and black.

SumerianKing said:

There you go, You just posted a good reliable source which 100% contradicts that stupid picture with borders. And which also backs up my statement by mentioning east of basra as part of the desert.

And none of them are as fertile and have rivers.

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It basically says the same, namely that 40 percent of Iraq is part of either the Arabian Desert or Syrian Desert. The map is pretty accurate.

Remember that outside the cities and Tigris/Euphrates all south, west and east of Baghdad is desert. Nearly all of western Iraq and Southern Iraq is part of the Arabian and Syrian desert.

Even parts of the AL-Jazirah region have semi-desert/steppe geography/weather and that's the most fertile part of Iraq outside the Kurdish regions and the marshes.



http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293631/Iraq

Anyway very large parts of Iraq's surface (40 percent) are part of the Arabian and Syrian Desert. The map I posted from WWW might not be "entirely" correct in the sense that some regions included in the Arabian Peninsular have fertile parts (so has parts of the Arabian Desert in KSA and Yemen etc.) but it's not way off.

Topographical map of Iraq.