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Great Ziggurat of Ur, Iraq
Iraq flag
1,217
Records
10
Datasets
32
Tables
10
Sources
152
SEL Fields
54
CCL Fields
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📋 Most recent national census: 2024. HERA carries the 2021 round — the 2024 census is not yet ingested (results may still be in staged release, or the source isn't published in a machine-readable form yet). The figures below are 2021.
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Datasets (10)
SEL — DGIWG Statistical Extent Location SEL+ — Platform extension (not in DGIWG core spec) CCL — DGIWG Cultural Context Location Extension — Preserved in extension tables (not in core SEL/CCL schema) Pending — Awaiting mapping

4 further sources (Ethnic Power Relations Dataset, GI-TOC / ENACT, Global Data Lab, World Values Survey) are held but not offered: their licences do not permit commercial redistribution. HERA cites their published findings with attribution and can supply the data to organisations holding their own licence — ask us.

IRQ World Bank Open Data IRQ-WORLD_BANK Development Indicators
198 rows · 3 tables · 2024 World Bank Open Data 0 1 2 3 19 SEL 4 ext ▶
IRQ LandScan Global (ORNL) IRQ-LANDSCAN Modeled Population
105 rows · 3 tables · 2024 LandScan Global (ORNL) 0 1 2 3 Locality 21 SEL 2 ext ▶
IRQ UNHCR Refugee Data Finder IRQ-UNHCR Migration
95 rows · 2 tables · 2025 UNHCR Refugee Data Finder 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 36 ext ▶
IRQ GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) IRQ-GHSL_UCDB Modeled Population
86 rows · 1 table · 2025 GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) 0 1 2 3 Locality 3 SEL 7 ext ▶
IRQ Glottolog Language Catalog IRQ-GLOTTOLOG Language
31 rows · 1 table · 2024 Glottolog Language Catalog 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 4 ext ▶
IRQ HDX COD — Population Statistics (OCHA/UNFPA) IRQ-COD_PS Census Derived Population
19 rows · 2 tables · 2021 HDX COD — Population Statistics (OCHA/UNFPA) 0 1 2 3 10 SEL ▶
IRQ OpenFactBook IRQ-OPENFACTBOOK Country Profile
15 rows · 15 tables · 2024 OpenFactBook 0 1 2 3 93 SEL 3 CCL 581 ext ▶
IRQ NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) IRQ-NGA_GNS Language
7 rows · 2 tables · 2026 NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) 0 1 2 3 4 SEL 12 CCL 24 ext ▶
IRQ D-PLACE IRQ-DPLACE Ethnographic Societies
6 rows · 2 tables · 2024 D-PLACE 0 1 2 3 2 SEL 15 CCL 55 ext ▶
IRQ INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) IRQ-INFORM Risk Index
1 row · 1 table · 2026 INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) 0 1 2 3 ▶
Toponymic Footprint 152,664 place names from NGA GNS

Which languages name the landscape here, and in which writing systems. A language's toponymic footprint and its speaker population are different measures and often diverge. Counts include variant and foreign-language renderings of the same place, so a language can rank high because outside sources record names in it rather than because it is spoken locally — and a widely spoken language can be almost absent where official naming is in another language.

LanguagePlace names Share*Script
Arabic (ara) 107,123 85.5% Arabic
Kurdish (kur) 16,704 13.3% Arabic +1
Persian (fas) 1,330 1.1% Arabic
English (eng) 107 0.1% —
+ 2 further languages (33 names, each under 0.05%)

54,611 distinct features · 6 languages · 2 scripts · 60,643 names in non-Roman script · 24 conventional English names
Source: NGA GEOnet Names Server (public domain) · rebuilt Wed, 05 Aug 2026.
* Shares are of the 125,297 names that carry a language code; the remaining 27,367 of 152,664 are unattributed, so these percentages do not divide into the headline count. Names follow the US/BGN convention.

Data Sources (10)

The data providers this country's datasets are sourced from — each links out to the provider.

SourceTypeAccess
HDX COD — Population Statistics (OCHA/UNFPA) international_organization bulk_download
World Bank Open Data international_organization api
D-PLACE (Database of Places, Language, Culture & Environment) academic bulk_download
INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) international_organization api
Glottolog Language Catalog academic bulk_download
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) international_organization api
NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) official_government bulk_download
LandScan Global (ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory) research_institution earth_engine
GHS Urban Centre Database (Global Human Settlement · EU Joint Research Centre) international_organization bulk_download
OpenFactBook community_compilation bulk_download

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