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US is overwhelmingly the biggest foreign contributor, followed by the UK, Italy and Poland.

Numbers fluctuate as troops are rotated in and out of the country. On 19 July 2004 there were about 133,000 foreign troops in Iraq, of whom about 112,000 were American.
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Baghdad Area of Operations:
About 30,000 foreign soldiers, most from the US 1st Cavalry Division. There are 32 Estonians in the Abu Ghraib district of the city.
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North-Central Area of Operations:
The US 1st Infantry is augmented by contingents from:
Georgia (150)
Latvia (about 40)
Moldova (30)
Macedonia (30)

Western Area of Operations:
The US 1st Marine Division is augmented by contingents from:
Azerbaijan (150)
Tonga (45)

Multinational Division Centre-South:
Poland (2,350)
Ukraine (1,550)
Thailand (450)
Bulgaria (420)
Hungary (290)
Romania (200)
Mongolia (140
Latvia (110)
Slovakia (110)
Lithuania (50)

(Source: Multinational Division Centre-South website, figures dated 16 June 200, when the Philippines still had 90 troops in the division. They were withdrawn ahead of schedule on 19 July 2004.)

Multinational Division South-East:
UK (8,300, mainly 1st Mechanised Brigade)
Italy (2,800)
The Netherlands (1,300)
Japan (500)
Romania (500)
Denmark (400)
Norway (130, in the process of leaving)
Portugal (124)
Czech Republic (90)
Lithuania (60)
New Zealand (60)

(Source: MND SE spokesman, 7 July 2004)

Others:
The numbers above usually do not include troops involved in logistical support, for example South Korean engineers and medics, or Estonian cargo handlers.

Australia has 850 troops in and around Iraq, mainly carrying out specialist functions such as air traffic control, air transport, aerial maritime patrols and maritime interception.

Singapore has also supplied a transport aircraft, a tank-carrying landing ship and police for training purposes - in total some 200 troops and police.
.......... soldiers at headquarters in Baghdad, and on warships or in air bases near Iraq. About 1,150 UK servicemen and women fall into this category.

Spain withdrew its 1,300 troops in April. Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Norway and Kazakhstan have either withdrawn their forces, or are in the process of doing so.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3873359.stm