Main City Codes:
Amara 43, Baghdad 1, Basra 40, Diwaniya 36, Erbil 66, Hilla 30, Kerbela 32, Kirkuk 50, Kut 23, Mousil 60, Najaf 33, Nasariya 42, Ramadi 24, Sulaim Ani 53
Communications: Iraq
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 675,000 (1997); note - an unknown number of telephone lines were damaged or destroyed during the March-April war
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- NA; service available in northern Iraq (2001)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: an unknown number of telecommunication facilities were damaged during the March-April 2003 war
- domestic: the network consists of coaxial cables and microwave radio relay links
- international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Arabsat (inoperative); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey; Kuwait line is probably nonoperational
- Internet country code:
- .iq
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 1 (2000)
- Internet users:
- 12,500 (2001)
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