IQ — Iraq

Iraq is a Western Asian country in the Fertile Crescent, home to ancient Mesopotamia — one of the cradles of civilization. Baghdad, the capital, was historically one of the world's greatest cities as the center of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Iraqi Dinar (IQD) is subdivided into 1,000 fils (three decimal places). For developers, the IQ country code maps to ar-IQ for Arabic and ku-IQ for Kurdish. The .iq domain and +964 calling code serve Iraq. Iraq's bilingual Arabic-Kurdish requirement means applications must handle both RTL Arabic script and Latin-script Kurdish (in Iraq, Kurdish uses a modified Arabic script called Sorani). The IQD's three-decimal subdivision (like BHD and KWD) requires careful currency formatting. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has a degree of autonomy that may affect regional settings in applications. Iraq's growing mobile internet adoption and expanding digital services make proper ar-IQ locale support important for Middle Eastern applications.