Iraqi culture is founded on a long history of civilisational, ethnic, religious, sectarian, and linguistic diversity. Iraq has produced some of the best poets, sculptors, and painters in the Arab world.
In the past, Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, was the Arab world's seat of cultural evolution. Iraq is a Muslim nation with Arabic and Kurdish as its official languages. Other minority languages include Aramaic, Turkic, Armenian, and Persian.
The family, clan, and tribe are the basic units of society and offer the basis for cultural, political, and economic life. The following section will share aspects of Iraqi culture and the country's multi-ethnic society.
