Diyala

Diyala Governorate or Diyala Province is a governorate in jap Iraq. Diyala Governorate extends to the northeast of Baghdad as a long way as the Iranian border. Its capital is Baqubah. It covers a place of 17,685 square kilometres. A huge part of the province is tired by way of the Diyala River, a major tributary of the Tigris. Because of its proximity to 2 important resources of water, Diyala's predominant industry is agriculture, in the main dates grown in big groves. The province additionally carries one in every of the most important olive groves within the Middle East. It is also diagnosed as the orange capital of the Middle East.

The Hamrin Mountains bypass via the governorate. The population and the ethnic composition of this province has been in a chief kingdom of flux since the Coalition invasion of 2003 and the elimination of the Sunni Arab government of Saddam Hussein from Baghdad. That authorities and people before it, had all been Sunni Arabs and as such, supportive of the Sunni Arab pursuits at the expenses of all different ethnic and confessional minorities which include the Shia, Kurds or even Iraqi Turkmen.