Iraqi Arab Republic

The Iraqi Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية العراقية al-jumhūriyah al-‘arabīyah al-‘irāqīyah), informally known as Iraq (العراق al-‘irāq), is one of 20 member republics of the Arab Union, and the second most populous, after the Egyptian Arab Republic, with a population of approximately 40.8 million at the end of 2018. Its capital and largest city is Baghdad.