Iraq — De Facto Map

Iraq — Republic of Iraq · Federal state with an autonomous Kurdish north.

Interactive de facto map of Iraq. Baghdad governs most of the country, but the map shows what the legal borders hide: the autonomous Kurdistan Region in the north, itself split between the KDP’s zone around Erbil and Duhok and the PUK’s around Sulaymaniyah; Turkish military outposts inside Kurdish territory, maintained over Baghdad’s objections; and the desert seams where Islamic State remnants persist as an insurgency without territory. Explore the real map of Iraq — who controls what on the ground.