The spiral Malwiya minaret reflected after rain at Samarra

Country guide

Iraq

1 place across the five collections. Start with what draws you here, then build a journey that gives each place enough time.

PhotographAbdulmomen Laith Mahmoud (عبدالمؤمن ليث محمود) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Find your way through Iraq.

The country guide gathers The Original 100 and every alternative included elsewhere on the site. A shared regional wonder may appear in more than one country.

Country orientation

Find the shape of your journey.

See how the 1 entry is distributed, then choose a cluster that suits the journey you want. Numbers on this map refer to the list alongside it.

Representative points, including broad regions and shared-border entries. A pin is not a visitor entrance or evidence of a direct travel connection.

  1. Samarra

    Extraordinary Discoveries · An Abbasid capital whose surviving forms suggest extraordinary scale.

Extraordinary Discoveries

201–300 · 1 place in this country

The spiral Malwiya minaret reflected after rain at Samarra

261 · Iraq

Samarra

An Abbasid capital whose surviving forms suggest extraordinary scale.

Turn the collection into a journey.

Begin with an anchor place and its suggested base. Compare the guides’ seasonal notes and allow separately for time spent travelling. A collection of places in one country is not automatically a sensible route, particularly where islands, mountains or remote regions are involved.

Use the travel workbench to record your chosen overnight stops and the transport information you have checked. It keeps unresearched connections visible and produces a day-by-day outline you can print or export.

For international travel, check current entry requirements, regional advice and the operating details of the actual transport and visitor authorities. Country and territory labels here organise the guides; broad shared landscapes do not imply unrestricted border crossings.