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Kūt (ٱلْكُوت), officially Al Kut, also spelled Kutulamare or Kut al Imara, is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about south east of Baghdad. as of 2018 the estimated population is about 389,400 people. It is the capital of the province long known as Al Kut, but since the 1960s renamed Wasit. The old town of Kut is within a sharp "U" bend of the river, opposite from the point where the Shatt al Gharraf branches off from the Tigris. This U shaped bend almost makes it an island but for a narrow connection to the shore. For centuries Kut was a regional center of the carpet trade. The area around Kut is a fertile cereal grain growing region. The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, looted following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, is located near Kut.

Kut has a hot desert climate (BWh) in the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system. Most rain falls in the winter. The average annual temperature in Kut is About of precipitation falls annually.

The medieval city of Madharaya was at the site of modern Kut. It lay at the point where the Nahrawan Canal flowed out into the Tigris. By the early 1200s, however, Yaqut al Hamawi wrote that Madharaya was in ruins. During the Operation Iraqi Freedom, FOB Delta was
manned by Polish, Kazakhstan, El Salvadorian, Georgian, Lithuanian, British, and US Multi National Forces. Sometime after 2009 the FOB was re designated as a COB. COB Delta was closed on October 24, 2011 and officially turned over to the IAF in a handover ceremony that afternoon in the main flight line hangar/terminal. Later that evening, approximately 2,200, the last Force Pro civilians flew out by helicopter.