Basra

Iraq / al-Basrah /
 city, capital city of state/province/region
Located in the extreme south-east at the head of the Persian Gulf. The population of the province of Basra two million six hundred thousand people, according to Census 2003. And Basra, the cradle of the first civilization in Sumer. And where the first science lesson after Islam
Basra is famous for, in addition to being the only sea port of Iraq, its rich oil fields of investor and promising fields such as Rumaila of the largest and most important oil fields in the world, and palm trees that were left of them are 4 million Palm after having destroyed and damaged, mostly during the first Gulf War in the eightieth of the twentieth century. Basra as it is called the "Venice of the Middle East," the large number of channels that penetrate.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basra
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Coordinates:   30°29'59"N   47°48'3"E

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