Basra Governorate
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Basra province, or Al Basrah province, is a province in the nation of Iraq. Its capital is Basra, the largest city of southern Iraq.
The province has international borders with Kuwait to the south and Iran to the east.
Basra province has an area of 19,070 km&2, with an estimated population of about 1,500,000 people in 2000.
Historically, under the Ottoman Empire, Basra province included Kuwait. After defeating the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the United Kingdom combined the old Ottoman provinces of Basra, Baghdad and Mosul to form the state of Iraq, which Britain controlled as a League of Nations mandate. (Kuwait had become a separate British protectorate shortly before the outbreak of World War I.)
This was the first stop for the United States and United Kingdom during the attacks on Iraq in March 19, 2003. The local population, long suppressed by Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Shiite Uprising, are generally not hostile towards American and British forces.
A proposal to join Basra with the neighbouring governorates of Dhi Qar and Maysan to form a southeastern state in an eventual Iraqi federation is currently in the talking stages.[1] (http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=6943)
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| Governorates (Provinces) of Iraq | 
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| Al Anbar | Arbil | Babil | Baghdad | Al Basrah | Dahuk | Dhi Qar | Diyala | Al Karbala | Maysan | An Najaf | Ninawa | Al Muthanna | Al Qadisyah | At Ta'mim | Salah ad Din | As Sulaymaniyah | Wasit | |
es:Al Basrah fa:استان بصره pl:Al-Basra (prowincja Iraku) sv:Al Basrah