al-Kut

Al-Kut, also spelled Kut al-Imara or Kut El Amara, is a city in jap Iraq, at the left bank of the Tigris River, about a hundred and sixty kilometres south east of Baghdad. As of 2003 the estimated populace is set 374,000 humans. It is the capital of the province lengthy called Al Kut, but since the Sixties renamed Wasit. The antique city of Kut is inside a pointy "U" bend of the river, almost making it an island however for a slim connection to the shore. For centuries Kut became a local middle of the carpet change.

The place round Kut is a fertile cereal grain developing region. The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, looted following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is positioned near Kut. The Kut Barrage turned into constructed within the town inside the 1930s to provide irrigation water for the surrounding region. The barrage helps a avenue and consists of a lock for boats passing up and down the Tigris. Its purpose is to hold a sufficiently excessive water stage in the Tigris to offer water for the Gharraf irrigation canal.