Mansour district

Al-Mansour or just Mansour is one of the nine administrative districts in , . It is in western Baghdad and is bounded on the east by district in central Baghdad, to the north by , to the west by , and to the south by Baghdad Airport Road, on the other side of which is al-Rashid district.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: district in Baghdad, Iraq
  • Also known as: “Al Mansur”, “Al Manşūr”, “Al Manşūr, Al Mansur”, “Al Mansur, المنصور”, “Ḩayy al Manşūr”, “Madīnat al Manşūr”, “Mansour”, “Mansour, Baghdad, Iraq”, “Mansour, Iraq”, “Manṣūr”, and “Manṣūr, Baghdad, Iraq”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baghdad Mall and As-Salam Palace.

Shopping center
Photo: MohammadHuzam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-purpose building consisting of a , a hotel and a medical centre in , . Located in , at the intersection between the Damascus street and Al-Kindi street, it is one of the largest shopping malls in Baghdad.

Castle
Photo: Botsojoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a palace located on Al-Kindi Street in the of , . Rather than serving as the residence of the former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein and his family, it primarily housed visiting foreign dignitaries.

Building
, previously called International Saddam Tower, is a 204 m TV tower in , . The tower opened in 1994 and replaced a communications tower destroyed in the Gulf War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yarmouk and International Zone of Baghdad.

Neighborhood
is an upmarket neighborhood located within Mansour district in , . It is adjacent to Baghdad Airport Road. Built in the 1950s, it was once home to numbers of high-ranking officials from Abdul-Karim Qasim's government.

Neighborhood
Photo: NetSerfer, Public domain.
The Green Zone, formally Karradat Mariam, is a 10-square-kilometer area in the of central , . It is the seat of the government of Iraq, home to government offices, ministries, state institutions, diplomatic missions, and palaces. is situated 3½ km east of Mansour district.

Photo: Marduksumer, Public domain.
is the capital and largest city of , with an estimated population of 6-7 million. Once one of the greatest centres of learning and culture in the world, was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

Mansour district

Latitude
33.31193° or 33° 18′ 43″ north
Longitude
44.34979° or 44° 20′ 59″ east
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Open location code
8H56886X+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2486262244
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
93937
Wiki­data ID
Q6751860
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Satellite Map

Discover Mansour district from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Mansour district” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المنصور”
  • Arabic: “حي المنصور”
  • Catalan: “Mansour”
  • Central Kurdish: “گەڕەکی مەنسوور”
  • Chinese: “曼苏尔区”
  • Dutch: “Mansour district”
  • French: “Al Mansur”
  • German: “Al Mansur”
  • Japanese: “マンスール”
  • Japanese: “マンスール地区”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mansour”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mansour-distriktet”
  • Norwegian: “Mansour”
  • Swedish: “Al-Mansour”
  • Turkish: “Mansur (ilçe)”
  • Turkish: “Mansur”
  • Urdu: “ضلع منصور”
  • Uzbek: “Mansur tumani”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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