Kingdom of Iraq
Also known as The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq
independent Iraqi monarchy (1932–1958)
Key facts
- 1941
- Sharaf bin Rajeh
- Capital and largest city
- Baghdad
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Recognised languages
- Armenian , Assyrian , Kurdish , Persian , English
- Religion
- Islam (80%) Christianity (15%) Judaism (2%) Yazidism (2%) Mandaeism (1%)
- Demonym
- Iraqi
- Government
- Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- 1932 1933
- Faisal I
- 1933 1939
- Ghazi
- 1939 1958
- Faisal II
- 1939 1941 1st time
- Prince Abdullah
- 1941 1953 2nd time
- Prince Abdullah
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Today part ofIraq
The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq was the Iraqi state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958. It was founded on 23 August 1921 as the Kingdom of Iraq, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War. Although a League of Nations mandate was awarded to the United Kingdom in 1920, the 1920 Iraqi revolt resulted in the scrapping of the original mandate plan in favour of a formally sovereign Iraqi kingdom, but one that was under effective British administration. The plan was formally established by the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty. The population of the Kingdom was 2.8 million at the founding in 1928, and by the end of the Kingdom in 1958 it was 6.5 million.