Iraq Maze: A Printable Country Maze for the 2026 World Cup

Iraq at the 2026 World Cup

Iraq qualified for the expanded 48-team 2026 World Cup. To celebrate, we turned Iraq into a real, solvable maze — the country's exact outline, filled with a perfect maze and illustrated with its most famous landmarks at their true geographic positions. The hedges are painted in Iraq's national colors.

Landmarks on the route

• The spiral Malwiya minaret of Samarra
• The Ziggurat of Ur
• A date palm
• The Swords of Qadisiyah arch
• Marsh reed boat

Difficulty

Very hard — the shortest solution runs 1237 maze cells. Generated with a seeded depth-first-search algorithm and verified solvable by breadth-first search.

Solution

Print it

Part of our World Cup 2026 maze series (AFC). Free for personal and classroom printing; publishing needs the Commercial Publishing License. Or make your own shaped maze.