Starting as early as the 6th millennium BC, the fertile alluvial plains between Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, referred to as Mesopotamia, gave rise to some of the world's earliest cities, civilisations, and empires of the indigenous Mesopotamians in Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria. Iraq is the 33rd most-populous country in the world and the 14th most-populous country in Asia. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish others also recognised in specific regions are Turkish (Turkmen), Suret (Assyrian), and Armenian. Most Iraqis are Muslims – minority faiths include Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The Iraqi people are diverse mostly Arabs, as well as Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Persians and Shabakis with similarly diverse geography and wildlife. The country is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west. It is a federal parliamentary republic that consists of 19 governorates. Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia.
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