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Who are Iraqis?
Iraq with its population of about 22 million people has been shaped by a
number of cultural and ethnic factors.
· Most of the people are of Arabic origin. About 80% speak Arabic.
· Ninety-five percent of the people are Muslim. There are about twice as
many Shias (Shi’ites) as Sunnis. (Sunnis are the more numerous sect or
religious group in most Muslim countries.)
· Kurds are a large minority living in the uplands of northeast Iraq. They are
primarily Sunni Muslims.
Minority Groups
Other minorities of Iraq include Turks, Armenians, and Assyrians (Nestorian
Christians). Most of the country’s once large Jewish population resettled in
Israel in the early 1950s.
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