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Key Facts
Climate
mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in ...
Coastline
58 km
Government type
federal parliamentary republic
Natural resources
petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, sulfur
Terrain
mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey