Basra Province

Basra Govrenorate
Basra Govrenorate; محافظة البصرة; Basra Province
	Province
	Coordinates: 30°22′N 47°22′E / 30.367°N 47.367°E
Kintra	Iraq
Caipital	Basra
Area
• Total	19070 km2 (7,360 sq mi)
Population (2011 Estimate)
• Total	3,500,000

Basra Province ([البصرة Al Baṣra] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a province in soothren Iraq, borderin Kuwait tae the sooth an Iran tae the east. The provincial caipital is the ceety o Basra. Ither districts o Basra include Al-Qurnah, Az Zubayr, Al Mudaynah, Shatt Al Arab, Abu Al Khaseeb an Al Faw locatit on the Persie Gulf.

Ancient history

In 1920, efter the defeat o the Ottoman Empire in Warld War I, the Unitit Kinrick took ower the umwhile Ottoman vilayets o Basra, Baghdad an Mosul which haed thegither formed the historical region o Irak Arabi or Irak Babeli, an cried it the Breetish Mandate o Mesopotamie. The mandate wis succeedit bi the Kinrick o Iraq in 1932.