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Has Iraq participated in the World Cup?
Iraq has been to the World Cup.

Iraq participated in the World Cup 1 time. 1986 World Cup is the 13 World Football Championship, held in Mexico, with 24 teams participating. There are only two places in Asia, and Iraq qualified for this World Cup through Asian regional qualifiers.

In this World Cup, Iraq was divided into Group B, along with Mexico, Paraguay and Belgium. In the first game, Iraq lost 0: 1 to Paraguay, in the second game 1:2 to Belgium, and in the last game, it lost 0: 1 to Mexico. Group match was 3-0, ranking fourth in the group and failing to qualify from the group.

Brief introduction of Iraq

* * * Republic of Iraq (Arabic:? Iraq is located in the southwest of Asia and the northeast of Arabian Peninsula, bordering Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the south, Turkey in the north, Syria in the northwest, Iran and Jordan in the east and west. The coastline is 60 kilometers long. The mountainous areas in northeastern Iraq have a Mediterranean climate, while other areas have a tropical desert climate.

In the middle of 3000 BC, Sumerians, the earliest inhabitants of the two river basins, created cuneiform characters, 60-bit counting method and circumferential fraction. Since then, Iraq has experienced the rule of the Babylonian Kingdom, Assyrian Empire, New Babylonian Kingdom, Persia, Seleuci (China called Tiaozhi), Rest and Persian Sassanian Dynasty. Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid dynasty. 1920 became the British Mesopotamian Trust.

192 1 year, the British sent Faisal I, the Hashemite royal family of Mecca, to Baghdad to establish the kingdom of Iraq. 1958, the Republic of Iraq was proclaimed.