Central Organization for Statistics
Iraq's principal government institution in charge of statistics and census data
The Commission Statistics and GIS (COSIT) or the Commission Statistics and GIS (COS, Arabic: هيأة الاحصاء ونظم المعلومات الجغرافية) is the Government of Iraq's statistics agency. It has its headquarters in Hay Al-Elwiya, Baghdad.
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