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Article: In DEPTH: 30 things you should know about Iraq.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2003
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Byline: Julie McCaffrey
Despite the rolling news of the war in Iraq, we know relatively little about the country that was hailed as the cradle of civilisation and gave the world the alphabet, numbers,laws and the wheel.
1 The original name of Baghdad - Madinat as-Salam - meant ``city of peace''.
2 Iraq is six times the size of Ireland.
3 The population,as of July 2002, was 24m.
4 Life expectancy in Iraq is 66 years for men and 68 years for women.
5 Iraq's literacy rate,as of 2000, is 53.7pcof adults and 70.7pc of youths.