List of places in Iraq

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Modern cities and towns

• Arbil
  Arbil
  
  Arbil is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and is the third-largest city in Iraq after Baghdad and Mosul....
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• Afak
  Afak
  
  Afak is a town in Al Qadisyah Governorate of Iraq...
  
• Al `Awja
  Al-Awja
  
  Al-Awja is a village 8 miles south of Tikrit, in Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris.It was the birth place of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 1937 and home of many of the leaderships of Iraqi provinces during his Presidency over Iraq....
  
• Baghdad
  Baghdad
  
  Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
  
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• Sadr City
  Sadr City
  
  Sadr City is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim and later unofficially renamed Sadr City after deceased Shia Islam leader Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr....
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• Green Zone
  Green Zone
  
  The Green Zone is the common name for the International Zone of Iraq— a 10-square-kilometer area in central Baghdad that was the center of the Coalition Provisional Authority and remains the center of the international presence in the city....
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• List of neighborhoods and districts in Baghdad
  List of neighborhoods and districts in Baghdad
  
  This article lists neighborhoods and the nine Administrative districts in Baghdad within 50 km of Baghdad, Iraq.The order is not alphabetical, but is instead arranged according to whether the neighborhood is east or west of the Tigris and then grouped roughly by north-south order....
  
• Baghdadi
• Bayji
  Baiji, Iraq
  
  Baiji 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 has a large power plant....
  
• Balad
  Balad, Iraq
  
  Balad is a city north of Baghdad in Iraq. It is located within the borders of the so-called Iraqi Sunni Triangle; however, Balad is a primarily Shiite town of approximately 100,000....
  
• Ba`qubah
• Al Basrah
  Basra
  
  Al-Ba?rah is the capital of Basra Province, and had an estimated population of 1,052,200 as of 2003. Basra is also Iraq's main port. The city is the historic location of Sumer, the home of Sinbad the Sailor, and a proposed location of the Garden of Eden....
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• Ad Dawr
  Ad-Dawr
  
  Ad-Dawr is a small agricultural town near the Iraqi town of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein birthplace.Also there is a housing complex called Saad 14 which was built by Hyundai Engineering & Constructions Inc....
  
• Dihok
  Dahuk
  
  Dahuk, Dohuk or Duhok may refer to:*Dahuk Governorate, a Governorates of Iraq in northern Iraq*Dahuk, Iraq, the capital city of the Iraqi governorate...
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• Ad Diwaniyah
  Al Diwaniyah
  
  Al Diwaniyah is the capital city of Iraq's Al-Qadisiyyah Governorate province. In 2002, its population was estimated at 420,000. The area around Al Diwaniyah, which is well irrigation from the nearby Euphrates river, is often considered to be one on the most fertile parts of Iraq, and is heavily cultivated....
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• Al Fallujah
  Fallujah
  
  Fallujah is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 kilometers west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jewish academies for many centuries....
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• Haditha
  Haditha
  
  Haditha is a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, about 240 km northwest of Baghdad. It is a farming town situated on the Euphrates River at ....
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• Haqlaniyah
  Haqlaniyah
  
  Al Haqlaniyah or Haqlaniyah is a city in Iraq on the Euphrates River. It is located in the Al Anbar province, It has 30 thousand inhabitants....
  
• Halabja
  Halabja
  
  Halabja , is a Kurdish people town in a Iraqi Kurdistan about northeast of Baghdad and 8-10 miles from the Iranian border.The town lies at the base of what is often refereed to as the greater Hewraman region stretching across the Iran-Iraq border....
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• Al Hillah
  Al Hillah
  
  Al-Hillah is a city in central Iraq on the river Euphrates, 100 km south of Baghdad, with an estimated population of 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babil province and is located near the ancient cities of Babylon, Borsippa and Kish ....
  
• Hit
  Hit, Iraq
  
  Hit or Heet is a city in al Anbar, Iraq. Hit lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital, in the Sunni Triangle....
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• Al Iskandariyah
  Iskandariya
  
  Iskandariya is an ancient city in central Iraq, one of a number of towns in the Near East named after Alexander the Great . It is largely populated by Sunni Muslims, and is located about 25 miles south of Baghdad, near the Euphrates River....
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• Karbala
  Karbala
  
  Karbala is a city in Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad at 32.61?N, 44.08?E. In the time of Husayn ibn Ali's life, the place was also known as al-Ghadiriyah, Naynawa, and Shathi'ul-Furaat....
  
• Karma
• Khanaqin
  Khanaqin
  
  Khanaqin Kurdish language ???? ???,Xaneq?n is a city in eastern Iraq, south of Kurdish regions. It is located at 34.3?N, 45.4?E in the Diyala Governorate, near the Iran-Iraq border on a tributary of the Diyala River....
  
• Kirkuk
  Kirkuk
  
  Kirkuk , Kurdish language:????????, , , , is a city in Iraq and capital of Kirkuk Governorate.It is located at 35.47?N, 44.41?E, in the Iraqi Governorates of Iraq of Kirkuk Governorate, 250 kilometres north of the capital, Baghdad....
  
• Al Kut
  Kut
  
  Al-Kut is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad. the estimated population is about 374,000 people....
  
• Al Miqdadiyah
  Muqdadiyah
  
  Muqdadiyah is a city in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq.This city was a part of the Persian Empire Sassanid Empire and had the Persian name Shahraban, meaning the satrap....
  
• Mosul
  Mosul
  
  Mosul is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of the Ninawa Governorate, some 400 km northwest of Baghdad. The original city stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linkin...
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• An Najaf
  Najaf
  
  Najaf is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 900,600 people, though this has increased significantly since 2003 due to immigration from abroad, mainly from neighbouring Iran.....
  
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• Al-Qa'im
  Al-Qa'im (town)
  
  Al-Qa'im is an Iraqi town located nearly 400 km northwest of Baghdad near the Syrian border and situated along the Euphrates River, and located in the Al Anbar Governorate....
  
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• Samarra
  Samarra
  
  Samarra is a city in Iraq.It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah al-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
  
• Al-Shamia
  Shamia
  
  Al Shamia is a town in Al Qadisyah Governorate of IraqShamia is also the name of a ferry in Bangladesh that sunk in Meghna River with around 600 people dead in the worst ferry disaster of the country....
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• Ar Ramadi (???????)
• Ar Rutba
  Ar Rutba
  
  Ar Rutbah is a Iraqi town in western Al Anbar province. The population is approximately 55,000. It occupies a strategic location on the Amman-Baghdad road, and the Mosul-Haifa Pipeline transport....
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• At Taji (Tadji)(??????)
• Tall `Afar
  Tal Afar
  
  Tal Afar is a city in northwestern Iraq in the Ninawa Governorate located approximately 30 miles west of Mosul and 120 miles north west of Kirkuk....
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• Tall Kayf
  Tel Keppe
  
  Tel Keppe is one of the largest Assyrian people villages in Iraq. It is located in the Ninawa Governorate less than 8 miles North East of Mosul in northern Iraq....
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• Tikrit
  Tikrit
  
  Tikrit is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river . The town, with an estimated population in 2002 of about 260,000 is the administrative center of the province of Salah ad Din ....
  
• Umm Qasr
  Umm Qasr
  
  Umm Qasr , 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....
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• Zakho
  Zakho
  
  Zakho is a district and a town in northern Iraq, located a few kilometers from the Iraqi-Turkey border. Zakho has served as a checkpoint for many decades....
  
• Al-Qurnah
  Al-Qurnah
  
  Al-Qurnah is a small village in southern Iraq about 74 km northwest of Basra, within the town of Nahairat. Qurna is located at the point where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers join to form the Shatt al-Arab....
  
• Az Zubair
• Abu Al Khaseeb (??? ??????)
• Al-Faw

Ancient cities and important ruins

• Babylon
  Babylon
  
  Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, sometimes considered an empire, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad....
  
• Ctesiphon
  Ctesiphon
  
  Ctesiphon was one of the great cities of the Persian Empire, located on the east bank of the Tigris.Ctesiphon was an imperial capital of the Arsacids and of their successors, the Sassanids....
   (Al-Mada'in
  Al-Mada'in
  
  Al-Mada'in is the name of an ancient urban complex along the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, that was the site of the cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon, and was also referred to as Seleucia-Ctesiphon....
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• Eridu
  Eridu
  
  Eridu , from the Sumerian for 'mighty place', is modern Tell Abu Shahrain, Iraq. Eridu was the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia, founded c 5400 BCE....
  
• Hatra
  Hatra
  
  Hatra is an ancient ruined city in the Ninawa Governorate and al-Jazira, Mesopotamia of Iraq. It is today called al-Hadr, and it stands in the ancient Persian province of Khvarvaran....
  
• Kish
  Kish (Sumer)
  
  Kish is modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babil Governorate, Iraq), and was an ancient city of Sumer. Kish is located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad....
  
• Lagash
  Lagash
  
  Lagash is located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, Lagash was one of the oldest cities of Sumer and later Babylonia....
  
• Nineveh
  Nineveh
  
  Nineveh , an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, Iraq....
  
• Nippur
  Nippur
  
  Nippur , from the Sumerian for 'lord wind' , is modern Nuffar in Afak Al Qadisyah Governorate, Iraq. Nippur was one of the most ancient of all the Sumerian cities....
  
• Nuzi
  Nuzi
  
  Nuzi was an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Al-Tamin governorate of Iraq, located near the Tigris river. The site consists of...
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• Sumer
  Sumer
  
  Sumer was a civilization and a historical region located in Southern Iraq , known as the Cradle of civilization. It lasted from the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period through the Uruk period and the Dynastic periods until the rise of Babylon in the early 2nd millennium BC....
  
• Tell Ubaid
  Ubaid period
  
  The tell of Ubaid near Ur in southern Iraq has given its name to the prehistoric Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic culture, which represents the earliest settlement on the alluvial plain of southern Mesopotamia....
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• Ur
  Ur
  
  Ur is modern Tell el-Mukayyar, Iraq, and was a city in ancient Sumer. Once a coastal city near the mouth of the then Euphrates river on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland....
  
• Uruk
  Uruk
  
  Uruk , from the Akkadian rendering of the Sumerian toponym 'unug', is modern Warka , Iraq. Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient Nil canal, some 30 km east of As-Samawah, Al Muthanna Governorate, Iraq....
  
• Samarra
  Samarra
  
  Samarra is a city in Iraq.It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah al-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
   is the site of the Great Mosque of Samarra
  Great Mosque of Samarra
  
  The Great Mosque of Samarra is a 9th century mosque which is located in the Iraqi city of Samarra. The mosque was commissioned in 848 and completed in 852 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil who reigned from 847 until 861....
  

Holy sites

Shiite

• Najaf
  Najaf
  
  Najaf is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 900,600 people, though this has increased significantly since 2003 due to immigration from abroad, mainly from neighbouring Iran.....
   is the site of Ali ibn Abi Talib's tomb known to Shiites as "the wondrous place of martyrdom" and site of one of the world's largest and most important Muslim cemeteries. Najaf is also the site of Imam Ali Mosque
  Imam Ali Mosque
  
  The Imam ?Ali Holy Shrine , also known as Masjid Ali or the Mosque of ?Ali, is a mosque located in Najaf, Iraq. Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin of Muhammad, Imamah , and the fourth caliph is buried here....
   one of the holiest Shi'ite mosques.
• Samarra
  Samarra
  
  Samarra is a city in Iraq.It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah al-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
   is the site of Shiite Al Askari Mosque.
• Kadhimiya (north of Baghdad) is regarded as a holy city
  Holy city
  
  Holy city is a synonym applied to many cities, all of them central to the history or faith of specific religions. These cities include:...
   in Shia Islam. Musa al-Kazim and his grandson, the ninth Shia Imam, Muhammad at-Taqi are both buried there, and their tombs are contained in the Al Kadhimiya Mosque
  Al Kadhimiya Mosque
  
  The Al-Kadhimiya Mosque is a shrine located in the Kadhimiya suburb of Baghdad, Iraq.It contains the tombs of the seventh Twelver Imamah Musa al-Kadhim and the ninth Twelver Shi?ah Imam Muhammad at-Taqi....
  . Shia go on an annual pilgrimage to this shrine in August/September.

Sunni

• Baghdad
  Baghdad
  
  Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
   is the site of the Abu Hanifa Mosque
  Abu Hanifa Mosque
  
  The Abu Hanifah Mosque is one of the most prominent Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq.Abu Hanifah Mosque is built around the tomb of Abu Hanifa an-Nu?man , the founder of the Hanafi madhab or school of Islamic religious jurisprudence....
   in Adhamiyah
  Adhamiyah
  
  Adhamiyah , also Azamiya, is neighborhood and a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.Adhamiyah is located to the north-west of the city center and is a relatively upscale area with a predominately Sunni Islam Muslim population....
  , Baghdad
  Baghdad
  
  Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
  , built around the tomb of Abu ?anifah an-Nu?man
  Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man
  
  Nu?man ibn Thabit ibn Zu?a ibn Marzuban , known as Abu ?anifah, was the founder of the Sunni Hanafi madhhab of fiqh.Abu Hanifa was also one of the Tabi'in, the generation after the Sahaba, because he saw the Sahabi Anas ibn Malik, and transmitted hadiths from him and other Sahaba....
   (often called "the Great Imam" (?????? ??????, al-imam al-a??am)), the founder of the ?anafi
  Hanafi
  
  The Hanafi school is the oldest of the four schools of law or jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after its founder, Abu Hanifa an-Nu?man ibn Thabit , and his legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani....
   madhhab or school of Islamic religious jurisprudence

Baha'i

• Baghdad
  Baghdad
  
  Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
   -- The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, is a place of Bahá'í pilgrimage
  Bahá'í pilgrimage
  
  A Bah?'? pilgrimage currently consists of visiting the holy places in Haifa, Acre, Israel, and Mansion of Bahj? at the Bah?'? World Centre in Northwest Israel....
  . Its significance is that it is where Bahá'u'lláh
  Bahá'u'lláh
  
  Bah?'u'll?h , born M?rz? usayn-`Al? Nuri , was the founder of the Bah?'? Faith. He claimed to be the prophetic fulfilment of B?bism, a 19th-century outgrowth of Shia Islam, but in a broader sense claimed to be a Manifestation of God referring to the fulfilment of the eschatology expectations of Islam, Christianity, and other major rel...
   lived in from 1853 to 1863 (except for two years). It is designated in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas
  Kitáb-i-Aqdas
  
  The Kit?b-i-Aqdas is a central book of the Bah?'? Faith written by Bah?'u'll?h, the founder of the religion. The work was written in Arabic under the Arabic title al-Kit?b al-Aqdas , but it is commonly referred to by its Persian title, Kit?b-i-Aqdas , which was given to the work by Bah?'u'll?h himself....
   as a place of pilgrimage and is considered a holy place by Bahá'ís
  Bahá'í Faith
  
  The 'Bah?'? Faith' is a monotheism religion founded by Bah?'u'll?h in nineteenth-century Persian Empire#Persia and Europe , emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind....
  . During the 1920s the house was confiscated by Shiah authorities, who were hostile to the Bahá'í Faith. The Council of the League of Nations
  League of Nations
  
  The League of Nations was an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?1920. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members....
   upheld the Bahá'í's claim to the house, but it has not yet been returned to the Bahá'í community.

Other geographic features

• Al-Faw Peninsula
  Al-Faw Peninsula
  
  The al-Faw peninsula is a marshy region adjoining the Persian Gulf in the extreme south-east of Iraq, between and to the south-east of the cities of Basra and Abadan ....
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• Diyala River
  Diyala River
  
  The Diyala River is a river and tributary of the Tigris that runs through Kurdistan Iran and Iraq. It covers a total distance of 445 km ....
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• Euphrates River (??? ????) (??? ??????)
• Shatt Al Arab (?? ?????)
• Tigris River (???? ????) (??? ????)

See also

• List of Assyrian settlements
  List of Assyrian settlements
  
  The following is a list of current Assyrian people towns and villages. It is worth mentioning that a good amount of Assyrians in the Middle East live in cities and not rural areas because of events during the 20th century These cities include Arbil, Dohuk, Mosul, Baghdad, Basra, Tehran, Urmia, Aleppo, Damascus, and Istanbul....
  

External links

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