Wasit Province

Wasit Province
Wasit Province; واسط; Wasit Govrenorate
	Province
	Coordinates: 32°40′N 45°45′E / 32.667°N 45.750°E
Kintra	Iraq
Caipital	Al Kut
Area
• Total	17153 km2 (6,623 sq mi)
Population (2003)
• Total	913,000

Wasit Province ([واسط Wāsit] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a province in eastren Iraq. Its name comes frae the Arabic wird meanin "middle," as it lees alang the Tigris aboot midwey atween Baghdad an Basra. Its major ceeties include the caipital Al Kut, Al-Hai, an the ceety Wasit. Prior tae 1976 it wis kent as Kut Province.

Provincial Govrenment

Govrenor: Latif al-Turfa ^[1]
Deputy Govrenor: Ahmed Abdu Salam ^[2]

Ceeties

Kut (374,000)
Al Suwaira (161,000)
Al-Hai
Al Azeeziaya

Freemit airtins

Iraq Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit Reports, Maps and Assessments of Iraq's Provinces from the UN Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit

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[2] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 8 October 2007. Retrieved 2 November 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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