Basra Governorate is one of the governorates of Iraq, and it is the second largest city in Iraq, and it is the administrative and political center of Basra Governorate. Basra is Iraq's only port and its main sea port. The province is also rich in oil fields, including the Rumaila field and the Shuaiba fields. Because of its location, it is located in the fertile Mesopotamian plains. It is located on a land with contrasting topography between a plain, a mountain, a plateau, and a desert. Its area is 19,070 km2, and its population is about 3,800,200 people, according to 2009 statistics.
Shatt al-Arab neighborhood
City district
Qurna district
Basra district
Zubair district
Al-Faw district
Abu al-Khasib district
This governorate is considered the second most important governorate in Iraq, because it is the artery of Iraq in terms of oil and food wealth. It is also considered a tourist city with its monuments, shrines, religious sites, tourist attractions and wonderful landmarks.
Basra Governorate is famous for its many tourist areas, the most important of which is the Shatt al-Arab, which is the product of the confluence of the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. It is also famous for its tourist areas. There are many tourist attractions in Basra that can contribute to the development of tourism if they are properly taken care of, including
Heritage tourism: It consists of some old buildings called Shanshil, which are the homes of Basra merchants about 300 years ago, and cultural tourism is famous for it, as a literary and poetry festival is held in Basra, which is the Mirbad Festival. Which extends back 1400 years, and is also famous for its widely known restaurants, foremost of which stands the Abu Star restaurant by its owner, Haji Abu Star, as this famous restaurant was famous for its wide reputation, as well as many restaurants, rest houses, and many areas whose people were famous for the kindness of hearts decency and tradition
The province of Basra is considered one of the important cities in terms of science and literature. And the linguist Al-Khalil bin Ahmed Al-Farahidi, one of the imams of language and literature. An Arab, and he has command in the Arabic language, its grammar, music and sports, as well as his student Sibawayh. He gave birth to the optics and physicist Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, the ascetic scholar al-Hasan al-Basri, the author of the principles of punctuation in the writing of Abu al-Aswad al-Dawil, the famous interpreter of dreams Muhammad Ibn Sirin, the imam of hadith scholars in his time and a modernist Basra Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, many contemporaries such as the poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the writer and thinker Ahmed al-Khafaji
