Editing Geography of Iraq (section)

===Desert===
{{main|Syrian Desert|Arabian Desert}}
[[File:20160104-Lake in Samawa desert Iraq 0356.jpg|thumb|274x274px|A reservoir in the [[Samawah]] desert of Southern Iraq]]
The desert zone, an area lying west and southwest of the Euphrates River, is a part of the [[Syrian Desert]] and [[Arabian Desert]], which covers sections of [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Saudi Arabia]] and most of the [[Arabian Peninsula]].
The region, sparsely inhabited by pastoral [[Bedouin]]s, consists of a wide stony plain interspersed with rare sandy stretches. A widely ramified pattern of [[wadi]]s–watercourses that are dry most of the year–runs from the border to the Euphrates. Some [[wadi]]s are over {{convert|400|km|mi|abbr=on}} long and carry brief but torrential floods during the winter rains.

Western and southern Iraq is a vast desert region covering some {{convert|64,900|mi2|km2|abbr=off}}, almost two-fifths of the country. The western desert, an extension of the Syrian Desert, rises to elevations above {{convert|1,600|ft|m|abbr=off}}. The southern desert is known as Al-Hajarah in the western part and as Al-Dibdibah in the east. Both deserts are part of the Arabian Desert. Al Hajarah has a complex topography of rocky desert, wadis, ridges, and depressions. Al-Dibdibah is a more sandy region with a covering of scrub vegetation. Elevation in the southern desert averages between {{convert|1,000|and|2,700|ft|metre|abbr=off}}. A height of {{convert|3,119|ft|m|abbr=off}} is reached at Mount 'Unayzah at the intersection of the borders of Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The deep Wadi Al-Batin runs {{convert|45|mi|km}} in a northeast–southwest direction through Al-Dibdibah. It has been recognized since 1913 as the boundary between western [[Kuwait]] and Iraq.