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 the 20 republics of the Arab Union, and with a population of over 44 million, the second-most populous after the Egyptian Arab Republic. Its capital and largest city is Baghdad, which is also the second-most populous city in the Arab Union, after Cairo, the Egyptian capital.