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Iraq
Iraq (pronounced /ɪˈræk/ or /ɪˈrɑːk/, Arabic: العراق Al-Irāq), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic: جمهورية العراق (help·info) Jumhūrīyat Al-Irāq, Kurdish: كماری عراق, Komara Îraqê, Assyrian: ܥܝܪܐܩ) is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain...
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Anbar
Anbar (الأنبار) was a town in Iraq, at lat. 33 deg. 22' N., long. 43 deg. 49' E, on the east bank of the Euphrates, just south of the Nahr 'Isa, or Sakhlawieh canal, the northernmost of the canals connecting that river with the Tigris.
Anbar was...
Anah
Anah, or `Ana, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately mid-way between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. It is called Hanat in a Babylonian letter (about 2200 BC), a-na-at by the scribes of Tukulti-Ninurta (885 BC), and...
Babylon
Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a...
Baghdad
Baghdad (Arabic: بغداد Baġdād, Turkish: Bağdat) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a municipal population estimated between 5 and 7.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and one of the two...
Area:
- 734 km² (283 mi² )
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Euphrates
The Euphrates ( juːˈfreɪtiːz (help·info)) is the longest and historically one of the most important rivers of Southwest Asia. Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia. The river – originating in the...
Tigris
The Tigris River is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates. The river flows from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq.
The Tigris is 1862 km long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of...
Basra
Al-Baṣrah (Arabic: البصرة; BGN: Al Basrah, also called 'Basorah) is the capital of Basra Province, Iraq, and had an estimated population of 3,800,200 as of 2009. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it is incapable of deep water access, which...
Arvandrud/Shatt al-Arab
The Shatt al-Arab (Arabic: شط العرب, literally Coast/Beach of the Arabs), or the Arvand Rūd (Persian: اروندرود, literally Arvand River), is a river in Southwest Asia of some 200 kilometres (120 mi) in length, formed by the confluence of the...
Baghdad International Airport
Baghdad International Airport (IATA: BGW, ICAO: ORBI) (Arabic: مطار بغداد الدولي); , BIAP is Iraq's largest airport, located in a suburb about 16 km (10 miles) west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate. It is the home base for Iraq's...
Kirkuk
Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk), Arabic: كركوك, Syriac: ܐܪܦܗܐ, Kurdish: Kerkûk/کهرکووک , Turkish: Kerkük is a city in Iraq and capital of Kirkuk Governorate.
It is located at 35.47°N, 44.41°E, in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, 250...
Tikrit
Tikrit (تكريت, Tikrīt also transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit) is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at 34.61°N, 43.68°E). The town, with an estimated population in 2002 of about 260,000 is the administrative...
Umm Qasr
Umm Qasr (Arabic: أم قصر, also transliterated as : Um-qasir, Um-qasser), is a port city in southern Iraq. It stands on the canalised Khawr az-Zubayr, part of the Khawr Abd Allah estuary which leads to the Persian Gulf. It is separated from the...
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Basra Governorate
Basra province, or Al Basrah province, is a province in southern Iraq bordering Kuwait to the south and Iran to the east. The provincial capital is Basra city. Other major cities include Al-Qurnah, Az Zubayr and Umm Qasr near the Persian Gulf.
In...
Area:
- 19,070 km² (7363 mi² )
Mosul
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Maṣlawī Arabic: al-Mōṣul, Assyrian: ܢܝܢܘܐ or Ninaweh, Kurdish: Mosul/Ninawa, Turkish: Musul) is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of the Ninawa Governorate, some 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. The...
Najaf
Najaf (Arabic: النجف; BGN: An Najaf) is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 900,600 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate. It is one of the holiest cities of Shia Islām and the center of Shia...
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Najaf Governorate
Najaf province (Arabic: النجف, An-Najaf), is a province in the nation of Iraq. The province has an area of 28,824 square kilometers (11,129.0 sq mi). In 2003 it had an estimated population of 930,000 people. Prior to 1976 it was part of the...
Area:
- 28,824 km² (11129 mi² )
Baghdad Governorate
Baghdad Governorate (Arabic: محافظة بغداد Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād) in the nation of Iraq and contains the conurbation of Baghdad. It includes the City of Baghdad, as well as the surrounding metropolitan area, with includes Al-Mada'in, Taji, Al Mahmudiyah...
Area:
- 4,071 km² (1572 mi² )
Babil Governorate
Babil (Arabic: بابل) is a province in central Iraq. It has an area of 5,603 square kilometers (2,163.3 sq mi), with an estimated population of 1,385,783 people in 2003.
The provincial capital is the town of al Hillah. The city Al Musayyib and the...
Area:
- 5,603 km² (2163 mi² )
Dhi Qar Governorate
Dhi Qar (Arabic: ذي قار) is a province in southern Iraq. The provincial capital is Nasiriyah. Prior to 1976 the province was known as Muntafiq Province. Dhi Qar was the site of the ancient civilization of Sumer and the ruins of Ur, Eridu, Lagash...
Area:
- 12,900 km² (4980.7 mi² )
At-Ta'mim Governorate
Kirkuk Governorate is one of the Governorates of Iraq located in the north of the country. From 1976 to mid 2006, it had been called At-Ta'mim (Kurdish: Kerkûk) which means "Nationalization" and refers to the national ownership of the very rich oil...
Area:
- 10,282 km² (3969.9 mi² )
Salah ad Din Governorate
Salah ad Din, Salâh-ad-Dîn, or Salahuddin (Arabic: صلاح الدين) is a governorate in Iraq, north of Baghdad. The governorate has an area of 24,363 square kilometers (9,406.6 sq mi). The estimated population for 2003 was 1,042,200 people. The capital...
Area:
- 24,363 km² (9406.6 mi² )
Ninawa Governorate
Ninawa (Arabic: نینوى; Kurdish: Neynewa; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ, Nīnwē) is a governorate (province) in northern Iraq, and the Arabic name for the biblical city of Nineveh in Assyria. It has an area of 37,323 square kilometers (14,410.5 sq mi) and an...
Area:
- 37,323 km² (14410 mi² )
Nasiriyah
Nasiriyah (Arabic: الناصرية; BGN: An Nāşirīyah; also spelled Nassiriya or Nasiriya) is a city in Iraq. It is on the Euphrates River about 225 miles (370 km) southeast of Baghdad, near the ruins of the ancient city of Ur. It is the capital of the...
Samarra
Sāmarrā (Arabic: سامَرّاء) is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad-Din Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700.
Medieval Islamic writers believed...
Kut
Al-Kūt (Arabic: الكوت; BGN: Al Kūt; also spelled Kut-Al-Imara or Kut El Amara) is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad. As of 2003 the estimated population is about 374,000 people. It...
Samawah
Samawah or As Samawah (Arabic language:السماوة ) is a city in Iraq, 280 kilometres (174 mi) southeast of Baghdad. The population was 250,000 in 2005.
The city of Samawah is the modern capital of the Al Muthanna Governorate. The city is located...
Sadr City
Sadr City (Arabic: مدينة الصدر) is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim and later unofficially renamed Sadr City after deceased Shia leader Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. Sadr...
Karbala
Karbala (Arabic: كربلاء; BGN: Al-Karbalā’; also spelled Karbala al-Muqaddasah) is a city in Iraq, located about 100 km (60 mi) southwest of Baghdad at 32.61°N, 44.08°E. In the time of Husayn ibn Alī's life, the place was also known as al-Ghadiriyah...
Baiji
Baiji (Arabic: بيجي; also spelled Bayji) is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants in northern Iraq some 130 miles north of Baghdad, on the main road to Mosul. It is a major industrial centre best known for its oil refinery, the biggest in Iraq and...
Ramadi
Ramadi (Arabic: الرمادي; BGN: Ar Ramādī) is a city in central Iraq, about 110 kilometers (68 mi) west of Baghdad. It is the capital of Al Anbar Governorate.
Ramadi is located in a fertile, irrigated, alluvial plain.
The Ottoman Empire founded...
Halabja
Halabja (Kurdish:ههڵهبجه or Helepçe), is an Iraqi town in a majority Kurdish area of Iraq about 150 miles (240 km) northeast of Baghdad and 8-10 miles from the Iranian border.
The town lies at the base of what is often refered to as the greater...
Baqubah
Baqubah (Arabic: بعقوبة; BGN: Ba‘qūbah; also spelled Baquba and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq's Diyala Governorate.
The city is located some 50 km (30 miles) to the northeast of Baghdad, on the Diyala River, just outside Iraq's so-called Sunni...
Diyala Governorate
Diyala (Arabic: ديالى) is one of the constituent governorates of the nation of Iraq.
Diyala province extends to the northeast of Baghdad as far as the Iranian border. Its capital is Baqubah. It covers an area of 17,685 square kilometres (6,828 sq...
Area:
- 17,685 km² (6828.2 mi² )
Diyala River
The Diyala River (Arabic: نهر ديالى, Persian: سیروان after Darban-e Khan Dam: دیاله, Kurdish: Sirwan, سيروان) is a river and tributary of the Tigris that runs through Kurdistan Iran and Iraq. It covers a total distance of 445 km (275 miles).
It...
Ad-Dawr
Ad-Dawr (الدور) is a small agricultural town near the Iraqi town of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's birthplace.
Also there is a housing complex called Saad 14 which was built by Hyundai Engineering & Constructions Inc. on 80's.
The town is populated mainly...
Al-Awja
Al-Awja (Arabic: العوجا; also known as Owja, Al-Auja or Al-Ouja) is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, in Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. The name is derived from the Iraqi Arabic word for corrupted woman, due to the prevelance of...
Alqosh
Alqōsh or Alqūsh (Syriac: ܐܠܩܘܫ, Arabic: القوش) is one of the most famous Assyrian (Chaldean rite) towns in Iraq. It is located 30 kilometers north of Mosul. The name Alqosh (or Elqosh) is derived from a compound Assyrian Akkadian name Eil-Kushtu,...
Iskandariya
Iskandariya (إسكندرية, also given as Iskandariyah, Iskanderiyah, Iskanderiya, Iskanderiyeh or Sikandariyeh or Al Askandariyah) is an ancient city in central Iraq, one of a number of towns in the Near East named after Alexander the Great (Iskander in...
Wasit Governorate
Wasit (Arabic: واسط) is one of the governorates of Iraq. It is in the east of the country. Its name comes from the Arabic word meaning "middle," as it lies along the Tigris about midway between Baghdad and the Basra. Its major cities include the...
Area:
- 17,153 km² (6622.8 mi² )
Al Muthanna Governorate
Al Muthanna sometimes simply, Muthanna, (Arabic: المثنى) is one of the governorates of Iraq. It is in the south of the country, bordering Saudi Arabia. Its capital is Samawah. Prior to 1976 it was part of the Diwaniya Province, which also included...
Area:
- 51,740 km² (19977 mi² )
Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate
Al-Qādisiyyah (in Arabic: القادسية) is one of the provinces of Iraq. It is in the center of the country. Its capital is ad-Diwāniyyah. Before 1976, it was part of the ad-Diwāniyyah Province, along with al-Muthannā Governorate and Najaf Governorate....
Area:
- 8,153 km² (3148 mi² )
Dahuk Governorate
Duhok (also spelled Dahuk, Dihok) is one of the governorates of Iraq. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Duhok city. It also includes the city of Zakho, which has at various times served as a checkpoint for the border with Turkey....
Area:
- 6,553 km² (2530 mi² )
Maysan Governorate
Maysan (Arabic: ميسان) is a province in southeastern Iraq, bordering Iran. The provincial capital, located beside the Tigris, is Al Amarah. The second settlement is Majar Al-Kabir. Prior to 1976 the province was known as Amara Province.
Maysan is a...
Area:
- 16,072 km² (6205.4 mi² )
Fallujah
Fallujah (Arabic: الفلوجة; sometimes transliterated as Falluja, Fallouja, or Falowja, Aramaic: Pumbeidtha) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from...
Al Anbar Governorate
Al Anbar (Arabic: الأنبار; al-’Anbār or Anbar) is the largest province in Iraq geographically. Encompassing much of the country's western territory, it shares borders with Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Al Anbar is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim...
Area:
- 137,808 km² (53208 mi² )
Kufa
Kufa (Arabic,الكوفة al-Kūfah) is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000.
Along with Samarra, Karbala, Kadhimiya and...
Karbala Governorate
Karbala Governorate (Arabic: كربلاء) is a province in the nation of Iraq. The capital is the city of Karbala, a holy city for Shi'ite Muslims; it houses the shrine of Imam Hussein (AS), a heavily revered figure in Shi'ite Islam. Shi'ite Muslim...
Area:
- 5,034 km² (1944 mi² )
Zagros Mountains
The Zagros Mountains (Persian: رشته كوههاى زاگرس, Assyrian: ܛܘܪ ܙܪܓܣ, Kurdish: زنجیرهچیاکانی زاگرۆس, Lurish: کو یه لی زاگروس, Arabic: جبال الزاجروس) are the largest mountain range in Iran and Iraq. With a total length of 1,500 km (932 mi), from...
Al Hillah
Al-Hillah (Arabic: الحلة; BGN: Al Ḩillah; also spelled Hillah or Hilla) is a city in central Iraq on the river Euphrates, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, with an estimated population of 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babil province and...
Al Diwaniyah
Al Diwaniyah (Arabic: الديوانية; BGN: Ad Dīwānīyah; also spelled Diwaniya) is the capital city of Iraq's Al Qadisiyah province. In 2002, its population was estimated at 420,000. The area around Al Diwaniyah, which is well irrigated from the nearby...
Dahuk
Duhok (also spelled Dohuk, Dehok or Dahok, Kurdish: دهۆك, Arabic: دهوك, Syriac: ܢܘܗܕܪܐ, Nohadra) is a city in northern Iraq and is the capital of Dahuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan. It has about 241.033 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and...
Nuzi
Nuzi (or Nuzu; Akkadian Gasur; modern Yorghan Tepe, Iraq) was an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Al-Tamim governorate of Iraq, located near the Tigris river. The site consists of one medium sized multiperiod tell and two...
Abu Ghraib
The city of Abu Ghraib (Arabic: أبو غريب;Abū Ghurayb ) in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq is located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000. The old road to Jordan passes...
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaimaniyah (BGN: Kurdish: سلێمانی, Silêmanî, Sulaimānīyah; Arabic: السليمانية) is a city in the east of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is situated in the northeast of Iraq, and is the capital of As Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaimaniyah is surrounded by the...
Kazimain
al-Kāżimiyyah (Arabic: الكاظمية al-Kāżimiyyah; alternatively, Arabic: الكاظمين al-Kāżimayn), is a town located in what is now a northern neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq about five kilometres from the city center. Al-Kāżimiyyah is one of nine...
As Sulaymaniyah Governorate
As Sulaymānīyah province (Arabic: محافظة السليمانية, (Kurdish: Silêmanî) is a province of Iraq, within the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Its capital is a city of the same name, As Sulaymaniyah.
The province is surrounded by mountains (Goyzha, Azmir,...
Area:
- 17,023 km² (6572.6 mi² )
Zakho
Zakho (Arabic: زاخو; Kurdish: Zaxo,زاخو or Zaco) is a district and a town in Iraqi Kurdistan located a few kilometers from the Iraqi-Turkish border.
Zakho is a province of the Dohuk Governorate. The city has 600,000 inhabitants. It may have...
Salman Pak
Salman Pak (Arabic: سلمان باك ) is a city approximately 15 miles south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris River. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of Muhammad who is buried there.
It is quite...
Buhriz
Buhriz is an Iraqi town of about 40,000 located 25 miles north of Baghdad and 6 miles south of the major city of Baquba. The town of Buhriz is heavily agricultural, located on fertile land along the Diyala river and engaged in the cultivation of...
Arbil
Arbil (also written Erbil or Irbil) (Kurdish: ھەولێر, Hewlêr, anglicized Hawler; Arabic: اربيل, Syriac: ܐܪܒܝܠ, Arbel) is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and is the third-largest city in Iraq after Baghdad...
