Basra Governorate is one of the governorates of Iraq and is the second largest city in Iraq, and it is the administrative and political center of Basra Governorate. Basra is considered the only port of Iraq and its main sea outlet. The governorate is also rich in oil fields, including the Rumaila field and the Shuaiba fields. Due to its location, it is located in the fertile plains of Mesopotamia. It is located on a land of contrasting terrain between a plain, a mountain, a plateau and a desert. Its area is 19,070 km2, and its population is approximately 3,800,200 people (according to 2009 statistics).
Shatt al-Arab districtAl-Mudaina districtQurna districtBasra districtAl-Zubair districtAl-Faw districtAbu Al-Khasib district
This governorate is considered to be the second most important province in Iraq, because it is the artery of Iraq in terms of oil and food wealth and is also considered a tourist city, with its monuments, mausoleums, religious sites, tourist attractions and magnificent monumentsBasra Governorate is famous for its many tourist areas, the most important of which is the Shatt al-Arab, which is a product of the confluence of the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, and is also famous for its tourist areas, as there are many landmarks in Basra that can contribute to the development of tourism if it is properly taken care of, including:Heritage tourism: which consists of some old buildings called shanashel, which are homes for Basra merchants about 300 years ago, and cultural tourism is famous for it, where a literary and poetic festival is taking place in Basra, which is the Al-Marbad Festival, which extends to 1,400 years, and is also famous for its wide-known restaurants that stand In the forefront of which is Abu Star Restaurant by its owner Hajj Abu Sattar, where this popular restaurant was famous for its wide reputation, as well as several restaurants, places of rest, and many areas, whose people were famous for their kindness of hearts, decency and traditions.
Basra Governorate is one of the important cities in terms of science and literature, as this governorate has brought out many scholars, writers and jurists, including the scholar Al-Jahiz, the author of the Book of Miserables and the Letters of Square and Circulation, and the linguist, Al-Khalil bin Ahmed Al-Farahidi, one of the imams of language and literature. Arabic, and he has a leadership in Arabic language, grammar, musicology and sports, as well as his student Sibawayh, and gave birth to the optics and physicist Al-Hasan bin Al-Haytham, the ascetic scientist Al-Hasan Al-Basri, and the author of the origins of punctuation in writing Abu Al-Aswad Al-Duali, the famous interpreter of dreams Muhammad bin Sirin, and the imam of the Hadith scholars in His time and the modernist of Basra, Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, and many other contemporaries, such as the poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the thinker writer Ahmad al-Khafaji
