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Provincial Iraqi Control Al-Basrah
Provincial Iraqi Control Al-Basrah
Al-Basrah
Written by Tiraporn Olsen Friday, July 31, 2009 20:00
Al-Basrah province’s capital is Basra, the second largest city in Iraq. Other major cities include Qurna and Az Zubair and Umm Qasrand and Abu al-Khaseeb.
The province borders with Kuwait to the south and Iran to the east.
Basra province has an area of 11,850 square miles, with an estimated population of about 2.6 million people in 2003.
This was the first stop for the Coalition during the invasion on March 19, 2003. The local population, long suppressed by Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Shiite Uprising, are generally not hostile towards American and British forces.
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