The Geographic Location of Basra Governorate and its Effect on Iraq Power

Abstract

Geopolitics is one of the branches of human geography that studies the spatial distribution of the political phenomenon including the effect of geographic location on government power as one of the main traits of geostrategic that is relied on in the evaluation of government’s power. The researcher chooses the subject of geographic location of Basra governorate and its effect on Iraq power as a geopolitical study since the location has an important role in affecting the power of world countries including Iraq due to its prominent effect on the situation of the government’s economy and politics externally and internally.