• 17 governorates

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Iraq as a plain outline with the Tigris and the Euphrates, or with its governorate borders.

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Write the name of each numbered governorate.Answer key

  1. Al Anbar
  2. Al Muthanna
  3. Al-Qadisiyyah
  4. Babylon
  5. Baghdad
  6. Basra
  7. Dhi Qar
  8. Diyala
  9. Duhok
  10. Erbil
  11. Karbala
  12. Kirkuk
  13. Maysan
  14. Najaf
  15. Nineveh
  16. Saladin
  17. Wasit

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each governorate is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a governorate is answered.

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  1. Al Anbar
  2. Al Muthanna
  3. Al-Qadisiyyah
  4. Babylon
  5. Baghdad
  6. Basra
  7. Dhi Qar
  8. Diyala
  9. Duhok
  10. Erbil
  11. Karbala
  12. Kirkuk
  13. Maysan
  14. Najaf
  15. Nineveh
  16. Saladin
  17. Wasit

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids and points are the points file's, labels are Natural Earth's English names where the points file does not say otherwise, and the accepted spellings are the ones the two name sources print. THE DRAWING IS DATED: it has 18 governorate shapes, and Iraq has 19 since Halabja, in the east of the Sulaymaniyah shape, became a governorate of its own (recognized by Iraq's parliament on 14 April 2025). The page numbers and asks only the 17 governorates the split did not change; the Sulaymaniyah shape is in this file for the drawing and is never asked. A SECOND LIMIT OF THE DRAWING: the source draws Baghdad as a small shape of about 650 sq km around the city. Baghdad Governorate is about 5,100 to 5,200 sq km (the citypopulation.de table named below; the governorate boundaries of Iraq's Central Statistics Office, 2019, published on HDX and fetched through geoBoundaries, https://www.geoboundaries.org, on 2026-10-01), and most of it is drawn inside the shapes the source calls Diyala, Babylon, Al Anbar and Saladin. Baghdad, Babylon and Diyala are numbered and asked as the source draws them, and the page's copy says that Baghdad is drawn small. Name sources, all read on 2026-10-01: ISO 3166-2:IQ as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:IQ: 18 governorates and the Kurdistan Region; Kirkuk is IQ-KI there, the drawing keeps the source's old code IQ-TS for the id only); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Iraq and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_Governorate (19 governorates, Halabja from Sulaymaniyah, 14 April 2025); the table of governorates at https://www.citypopulation.de/en/iraq/cities/, which lists 19 rows with Halabja from the census of 25 November 2024; the CIA World Factbook's list of administrative divisions, read from the factbook.json mirror (19 governorates, with Halabjah). The 17 asked names agree in the first three. The points of Al-Qadisiyyah, Babylon, Kirkuk were moved inside their shapes, away from the middle the points file gives, so that the names on the Named sheet do not run into each other. On the map Al-Qadisiyyah is written in the short form Qadisiya, the English name ISO 3166-2:IQ gives as Wikipedia prints it, because the full name does not fit its shape. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Layers that cannot be tapped from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 34.4°N 44.6°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Iraq opens on the outline of the country with the Tigris and the Euphrates. Switch Borders on for the governorates as the map source drew them, before Halabja became the 19th in 2025.

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Outline and rivers first

The sheet opens with the two rivers inside the outline and nothing else. Press Print this map for a sheet to mark Baghdad or ancient Mesopotamia on. Rivers removes the Tigris and the Euphrates, and Borders adds the lines between the governorates.

Why 17 governorates have numbers

The borders are those of 18 governorates. Seventeen were not changed by the Halabja split, and Numbered and Named label those. The eighteenth shape is Sulaymaniyah as it was before Halabja, in its east, became a governorate. It stays unlabeled, because the new border is not in the map source.

  • For ancient Mesopotamia, print the outline with Rivers on and have students shade the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Questions and answers

How many governorates does Iraq have?

Nineteen. Halabja, once part of Sulaymaniyah, was recognized as the 19th governorate by Iraq’s parliament in April 2025. This map draws the 18 shapes of before the split and numbers the 17 that the split did not change.

Which rivers are on the blank map of Iraq?

The Tigris and the Euphrates. They join in the south as the Shatt al-Arab, which is drawn too. Switch Rivers off for an outline with no rivers.

Is there an Iraq map quiz?

Yes. Press Quiz yourself on this map and the page names one of the 17 numbered governorates at a time for you to tap. Al Anbar, the largest, fills the west of the country.

Can I print Iraq with its governorates named?

Yes. Switch Borders on, choose Named and press Print this map. Seventeen governorates carry their names. The Sulaymaniyah shape, which takes in Halabja on this drawing, carries none.

Where is Baghdad on this map?

With Borders on, Baghdad is the small shape near the middle of Iraq. The map source draws only the land around the city. Baghdad Governorate today is several times larger and takes in land drawn here inside the neighboring shapes.

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